'Atlantes and Caryatids' is a novel by Ivan Shamyakin, one of the leading Belarusian prose writers and winner of numerous literary awards. This large-scale work explores the life of the urban intelligentsia, moral choice, and an individual's responsibility to society.
The book is in Belarusian.
Ivan Petrovich Shamyakin was a Belarusian Soviet writer, screenwriter, playwright, and public figure.
He was born on January 30, 1921, in the village of Korma, Dobrush District, Gomel Region, Belarus, into a poor peasant family. Father: Petr Minovich Shamyakin. Mother: Sankletia Stepanovna. Wife: Mariya Filatovna. Daughters: Lipa Ivanovna (born 1941), Tatyana Ivanovna (born 1948), and Olesya Ivanovna (born 1960).
Ivan Shamyakin spent his childhood in his native village, in that cherished corner where roosters crowed for three republics at once: Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.…
