Anna Starobinets – Look at Him – in French

new publication

French language edition published by Actes Sud

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 – The Dog Headed – in Italian

new refresher sale

Italian edition continuously published by Voland/ Italy

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.

Anna Starobinets – Chronicles of the Ashen Spring – for Spain

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new sale

Spanish translation rights sold to Impedimenta

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.

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Aleksei Ivanov – The Geographer Drank His Globe Away – in Italian

new refresher contract

refresher contract concluded with Voland

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