German mystic spirit is seen through the prism of modern realities in Alherd Bakharevich’s new book The Cold Heart, a postmodern coctail in the form of a fairy tale. The book features Alherd Bakharevich’s translation of The Cold Heart, a fairy tale by German poet and novelist Wilhelm Hauff, and a new novel by Bakharevich disguised as afterword, a path through German mysticism to Belarusian reality. Alherd Bakharevich has been writing in various styles as diverse as a trip through the fate and body of Veranika in The Magpie on the Gallow Pole, and sitire and exquisite lyric in No Mercy for Valyantsina N. Bakharevich’s sixth book is quite provoking. This is an attempt to lace a fairy tale and reality together under one cover with Wilhelm Hauff.