"Originally published in Russian in 2010 by AST (Moscow) and Astrel'-SPb (Saint Petersburg)."
Banned in Belarus two days after it was published, Paranoia is a thriller, a love story, and a harrowing journey into one of the world's last closed societies. The book never mentions Belarus or its capital, Minsk, but the setting is unmistakable. In his tragicomic prefatory remarks, author Victor Martinovich all but acknowledges the inevitable comparison: 'There is no more need to invent 1984: just look around.'
