Viktor Martinovich – prose writer, art critic (dissertation on the Vitebsk avant-garde and the work of Marc Chagall); teaches at the European Humanities University in Vilnius. Author of novels in Russian and Belarusian languages (“Paranoia”, “Sphagnum”, “Mova”, “Sciudziony Vyrai” and “Lake of Joy”). The new novel “Night” was written in Belarusian and is being published in Russian for the first time. “Night” is a dystopia, a travelogue novel, and a game novel. The world plunged into an endless cold night. In the free city of Grushevka, water is on schedule, the only newspaper “Gazeta” is a carbon copy and the compass does not work. The main character Knizhnik is the owner of the only library in the city and the last dog. Taking a map of the new world and a volume of Herodotus, the Scribe goes in search of his beloved woman, who at the time of the blackout ended up in Nepal...