A short story from Olga Slavnikova’s prose collection LOVE IN TRAIN CAR No. 7 will be part of a Japanese edition with collected Russian prose. The full collection of LOVE IN TRAIN CAR No. 7 has been published in Vietnamese language and single short stories from it in LETTRE INTERNATIONAL and US magazines. English translation is available.
It is not at all difficult for Olga Beshlei’s heroine to find emancipated soulmates in any Western city who have suffered similarly. Except perhaps the panic about trying to hide a huge pink dildo before a house search by the secret service FSB should be considerably less outside Russia. One chapter from her book MY WEIRD LOVER FROM THE FSB has been published by Matthes&Seitz Berlin within the dekoder book 2019.
„Everyone in the FSB will read it and roll over laughing.“ ALEKSANDR LYCHAGIN
By using this hardly known episode of the very last battle of the Russian Revolution in his twice award-winning narrative non-fiction book, Yuzefovich 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.
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In Belarus holding a print copy of Viktor Martinovich’s novel REVOLUTION in hand has become a symbol of protest. Recently 600 copies of the Belarusian edition of REVOLUTION have been confiscated by the police, the publisher had been arrested for some while. REVOLUTION is not about the protests in Minsk, but about subservience to the corruption of power.
Read an interview in English with Martinovich about the actual situation in Belarus.
Ukrainian Jewish boxing champion Ilya Goldinov has just come second place in the Soviet All-Union championships when World War II breaks out. After the German invasion of Ukraine, he joins the partisan fighters in the forests behind the front line. Only by lucky coincidence does he survive and he joins the regular army as a soldier before being sent by the Ukrainian secret service on a life-threatening mission to occupied Kiev.
Aleksei Nikitin’s novel BAT-AMI. FROM THE FACE OF FIRE is not a documentary novel, but its story – inspired in part by the author‘s family history – is based on Ukrainian files relating to 1941-42 secret service operations. The novel tells the true story of the famous boxer Goldinov, because the rumours that were still circulating in Kiev after the war have largely proven to be false, as has old Yad Vashem version of the events.
Natalia Stepanova is one of the very few Russian shamans and magicians who are publishing their spells and practical witchcraft advices in writing. But she herself as a person is trying to avoid any publicity in the media. Her books are for all who are interested in the original tradition of Russian folk magic. Magic means above all – a certain rhythm of life, a certain daily routine, the observance of certain rules, pilgrimages, work in the forest and other places of power.