This beautiful hardcover edition of the famous collection of short stories DARK ALLEYS by Ivan Bunin is the third Western edition within 3 years.
The first russian Nobel Prize winner for literature has a come back because not only Russian readers feel that a next heavy political turning point has hit the world which is hundred years after Bunin’s view on the other turning point in history – the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Pavel Belyanski was born in 1977 in a family of military servants in the village of Shakhta No. 9, Lugansk region. Under the pen name „Pashtet“ he actively wrote in samizdat and became the winner of various competitions. Right now he is defending his country as a volunteer soldier for Ukraine. Belyanski is married and has two children.
His novel GRANDMA DID NOT LOVE TO DIE is a cruel, beautiful, openly funny and truthfully sad family saga over three generations. All their lives they strive for personal happiness in their home, but there has never been real love. Each chapter here is a work of its own, a piece of life, an ironic, sad and powerful story. Nestled together, they weave into a magnificent canvas of the story of the residents of a mining village in Eastern Ukraine.
When grandma is on her deathbed once again, her husband Petro admits that he never loved her. Whereupon she jumps up alive and leaves the house angrily… Grandmother Anya always says: Don‘t worry, I‘m not going to die, God doesn‘t want me. She feels sinful because she has denied her firstborn all her life. In the end she dies without seeing him again.
Aleksei Ivanov is at home in different genres. But he is always interested in those times, places and events in Russian culture where a transition from one cultural system to another takes place. In his novel THE HOUND HEADED it is the clash between strangers from the big city with their Mercedes bus, their notebooks and mobile phones including social networks – and a village community, which has degenerated from primitive primal fears to inhumanity.
Three Muscovites have been hired by an ominous preservation fund via the Internet to save a rare fresco depicting St. Christopher with a hound‘s head for the museum in the abandoned village church. The village and its inhabitants, who are not only outwardly totally run-down, react aggressively to the strangers with their Mercedes bus, their notebooks and mobile phones including social networks. 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.
“A rich, atmospheric American thriller, moved to our native aspen forest, which uses all our Russian phobias… of course the reader is hoodwinked, but extremely clever.“ ST. PETERBURG VEDOMOSTI
The Ukrainian author Aleksei Nikitin has not only a feel for the raw nerves of a fin de siècle, but also the skill to present his hometown of Kiev ironically and season it with original anecdotes and characters. In VICTORY PARK we learn the names of the villages which occupied the left bank of the Dnepr before the prefab housing blocks began their sprawl in the 1970s; why the soviet housing administration disliked pigeon post and in this did not differ from the German invaders during World War II; and how the rumour of a neglected German army bunker can develop into a real hideout for a neo-Leninist combat unit, who at the end of the novel spark off a final Maidan of the Righteous in Victory park.
Inspired by the Hippocratic statement that our food should be our remedies and our remedies our food, Galina Shatalova has developed a concept of natural recovery. 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. Everything we eat too much burdens the body and must be „disposed of“ by it. In this book CHOOSE YOUR WAY – METHOD OF HEALING NUTRITION she explains the anatomical and physiological backgrounds of her concept and reports on her experiences during his practical trials.
Aleksei Ivanov’s novel THE FOOD SHACK is a very tricky vampire novel about a highly topical ideological conflict that runs through the entire book on many levels: Independence of thought, dreaminess, the urge for freedom and the attempt to understand our complicated world – as a counterpart to the simple answers and blunt rules that have always been and still are set up, out of laziness of thought or just to enslave people. A novel that is not only straightforward and strong like a wooden post, but also follows the rules of the genre so well, that the reader doesn‘t even notice how he has already been bitten and infected.
These are the first 5 countries having published Serhii Rudenko’s political Biography of Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
Poznanskie has also published a Ukrainian version for Polish territory. The author will donate his income from this special Ukrainian edition to support Ukraine in war.
The next in row to publish are UK-US/Polity (June) and Germany/Hanser (July).
On February 24, 2022, the Russian army launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The city of Kharkiv quickly comes under heavy fire. Hundreds of thousands of people flee. The Ukrainian writer Sergey Gerasimov and his wife together with several cats remain in the embattled frontline town. Soon there will be a lack of clean water, food and medical infrastructure. The thermometers show high sub-zero temperatures, people are freezing. Gerasimov begins to write about the absurdity of everyday life in war. The result is a stirring testimony, an appeal for peace and understanding.
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