Viktor Martinovich’s debut novel PARANOIA is an electrifying political thriller and a tragic story of love and betrayal, which if nothing else shines a spotlight on the methods of Big Brother in the 21st century – the new reality in Belarus under dictatorship of Lukashenko. As Martinovich himself says: “One does not need to write a new ‘1984‘ anymore, one just needs to look around.“
Julia Kissina is a renowned Ukrainian writer and artist living in Berlin and New York City. Her novel SPRINGTIME ON THE MOON is both a memoir of Kyiv and a coming-of-age story. A rebellious and visionary girl grows up in the milieu of the bourgeois Jewish intelligentsia in a high-rise building on the outskirts of Kyiv‘s old town.
“In addition to the surrealism of morbid images, it is the precise, often mercilessly mocking … language that makes “Spring on the Moon” an event… With Julia Kissina‘s novel, Kyiv has become a place that from now on has its place on the mytho-poetic map of Eastern Europe.“
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG
“Springtime on the Moon» is often studiedly amusing, but the attempt to take more than light fiction from her own memories lends Kissina’s book a Nabokovian dimension… As funny as Kaminer and as serious as Nabokov.“
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
Anna Starobinets‚ book ICARUS GLAND is a collection of seven exciting stories about a changing reality. In this reality, through a simple little operation, one can become a model family man, but inadvertently lose one’s soul in the process. A long-awaited trip to the capital of the world turns into a road to hell. A failed screenwriter, instead of meeting up with his producer, finds himself at the epicenter of an alien invasion. An awakened gene threatens to create either an angel or a demon out of a human doll. And what goals the authors of a computer game for children are really pursuing is still a mystery.
Dmitri Danilov is an award winning novelist but and even more famous play writer in Russia. Now his plays – THE MAN FROM PODOLSK and also SERYOZHA IS VERY STUPID – find more and more interest from theatres in the West.
The sincerity and accuracy of Roman Senchin, the attention to detail in his novel RAIN IN PARIS create the vivid and truthful image of a forty-year-old man and his life in the Russian province. The hero and the reader with him become gradually clear: Without understanding the past, people have no future.
«“Rain in Paris“ is an extraordinarily graceful novel for all the details of everyday life. And with all the acute socio-political content a thoroughly philosophical text.» PAVEL BASINSKI
The LitRPG series PLAY TO LIVE by D. Rus is constantly super successful in English. In Germany Random House gave it a try with just Volume 1 and 2 some time ago but did not reach the target audience. Rights returned to the author.
Now Zweihänder Publishing acquired ebook, print and audiobook rights for the full series and will publish soon in a fresh translation. After the successful launch of another LitRPG series with Zweihänder we are confident that also PLAY TO LIVE will finally find its way to German readers and fans.
In February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine: the taking of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was a declared main goal of the “special operation”. Both the seat of government and the base of President Zelenskyi, Putin‘s number one enemy, are in Kyiv. Whoever controls Kyiv controls Ukraine. The unexpectedly successful defense of the capital and the expulsion of the Russian occupiers from the surrounding settlements in the greater Kyiv area was a crucial turning point in the course of the war.
Sergii Rudenko, the author of a political biography about Ukrainian President Zelenskyi (sold to 25 languages), is giving a close and personal insight in his new book BATTLE FOR KYIV about this incredible spirit of resistance, which neither Putin‘s generals nor the Western world had counted on and which made it clear that the war in Ukraine and the battle for Kyiv is also a battle for freedom and self-determination in Europe. Only with the liberation of the villages around Kyiv and the gruesome discoveries of Bucha and Irpin would the Western world finally realize that this is also a battle to defend human dignity.
The newest novel VIXEN HILL by Anna Starobinets is a horror thriller in the genre of mystic realism takes. The action takes place in the Far East, on the border of the Soviet Union and Manchuria (China) in 1945, right after the end of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the region. The novel combi- nes the history of the USSR, Chinese mythology, Japanese genetic engineering and Siberian shamanism.
«Starobinets doesn‘t let the reader relax for a minute as she manages to keep up the hellish pace over seven hundred and something pages.» MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)
Pavel Belyanski’s novel GRANDMA DID NOT LOVE TO DIE is a cruel, beautiful, open, truthful and relevant saga about three generations of a family who all their lives strive for personal happiness in their home in Donbas, Ukraine.
After the success of German ebook sales of REALM OF ARKON, a cyber punk fantasy series of 9 volumes by G. Akella, the German publisher Zweihänder Verlag will now also produce an audiobook version.