After several highly acclaimed literary novels the play THE MAN FROM PODOLSK has made Dmitri Danilov famous also among the theatre audience. A first quality production by the Teatrul Metronom in Bucharest for the season 2026-27 will have premiere in October.
Three of Galina Shatalova’s famous books on alternative healing have been available in German translation more than 25 years now: CHOOSE YOUR WAY, HEALING NUTRITION and PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH.
The intention of Shatalova, as a doctor and as a person, is to return the human being to himself, to help him become as nature conceived and shaped him. For this reason she has created a natural healing method, concrete and theoretically founded. Inspired by the Hippocratic statement that our food should be our remedies and our remedies our food, Shatalova has developed a concept of natural reco- very. Her diet strictly opposes the calorie theory of balanced nutrition, which is contrary to human nature. According to her, the human organism is restricted exclusively to plant foods and does not need more than 250 to 400 calories of daily food intake to maintain its basic metabolism.
Mirzakarim Norbekov’s most famous book about how to get rid of your glasses (which is the sub-title of the book) has been successfully selling in German translation for 20 years now.
We are happy having concluded the next refresher term including audiobook rights.
Anna Starobinets‚ documentary novel LOOK AT HIM is a groundbreaking memoir about the devastating loss of her unborn son to a fatal birth defect. The memoir describes her struggle to find sympathy, community, and psychological support for herself and her family.
The book ignited a firestorm when first published in Russia, prompting both high praise and severe condemnation for the author’s willingness to discuss long-taboo issues of women’s agency over their own bodies.
Aleksei Ivanov’s mystery thriller THE DOG HEADED is intertwining Russia’s past and present horror.
One remembers the extremely hot summer when the peat fields around Moscow were on fire. Even above a remote village near a former prison camp in the forest somewhere towards the Volga lies biting opaque smoke. Three Muscovites have been hired to save a rare fresco depicting St. Christopher with a dog’s head for the museum in the abandoned village church…For far too long, the three Muscovites have been thinking of everything as haunting images in the minds of the villagers, who are still socialized by the surveillance state Russia. But their enlightened intellectual view of the world breaks apart piece by piece in contact with this village community, which has degenerated from primitive primal fears to inhumanity.
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The first license sale of the very fresh new Medieval-post-ap series CHRONICLES OF THE ASHEN SPRING by Anna Starobinets was concluded for Spain with Impedimenta.
A dark past has come instead of a bright future. In those post-apocalyptic New Middle Ages, where the skies are choked with ash and science is deemed heresy, a young inquisitor investigates witchcraft cases, desperately seeking reality and truth where everyone else sees only delusion and sorcery. The climate has changed, dark snow falls from the perpetually ashen skies. The gods have changed, people worship the Great Gee, Who Knows the Answer to Every Question – but who exactly is this deity passed down through oral traditions: a Jesus or GPT?
Each book is an investigation of a witch case.
Although Aleksei Ivanov is now renown for his historical fiction and horror novels, it was the realistic fiction novel THE GEOGRAPHER DRANK HIS GLOBE AWAY that made him famous – not only in Russia.
In the Russian province of the 90s a young teacher fights with the children of the new generation. He has been assigned to the most rebellious class. The „geography teacher“ and the teenagers, who are ready to break him, first sit in the walls of the classroom, but then outside the walls they together experience an adventure of comradeship and initiation.
„Geographer“ pumps new blood into the channels of emotional perception through literature and lets many readers again – lite- rally as the first time – feel very simple and familiar things: winter, love, wind, trust, lone- liness, the smell of cigarette smoke, the taste of vodka, the headache of a hangover.“ GALINA YUZEFOVICH
Leonid Yuzefovich is telling a hardly known episode, the last battle of the Russian Revolution. In this twice award-winning non-fictional novel WINTER ROAD, the author is able to portray deeper human motives: the love, passion and individual suffering that are buried in the ideology are revealed and the characters shown to be both oppressor and victim. In the end each individual is responsible for the Russian tragedy.
The novel RETURN TO EGYPT by Vladimir Sharov is in many ways similar in its themes, ideas and obsessions with the much shorter THE REHEARSALS.
Vladimir Sharov passed away in 2018 but his unusual and unique works continue to attract sustained interest in various regions of the world.
The LitRPG series PLAY TO LIVE by D. Rus is constantly super successful in English and in German.
Now Zweihänder Publishing acquired ebook, print and audiobook rights for the full series also for French language and will publish soon in a fresh translation.