'Christ Has Landed in Grodno' is a novel by Vladimir Karatkevich, one of the masterpieces of Belarusian prose. 16th century, Belarus. Traveling comedians act out a Gospel story, and suddenly their 'Christ' begins to perform real miracles. A parable about faith, deception, and truth.
Book in Belarusian
Vladimir Korotkevich (1930–1984) was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, and translator; a classic of Belarusian literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was one of the few writers of the Soviet era who managed, through artistic expression, to restore to an entire people a sense of their own history and national dignity.
He was born in Orsha into an intellectual family. He learned to read at the age of three and a half, and wrote his first poems at six.…
