A rebellious and visionary girl growing up in the milieu of the bourgeois Jewish intelligentsia in a high-rise building on the outskirts of Kyiv’s old town. Sad, angry, gifted with visionary language, Yulia Kissina describes her Soviet childhood against the background of the physical and ideal decay of the city of Kyiv and its inhabitants.
There is an animal in each of us, they say. But is there also a human being in each of us?
«Zoorama is like a labyrinth that you traverse breathlessly, as if it were an impossibility to stop or even turn back. Similar to Dante’s Virgil, the author’s alter ego drives us unerringly through his own personal inferno.»
NINO HARATISHVILI
A chapter from the novel THE ORDERLY FROM INSTITUTSKA STREET by Aleksei Nikitin will be translated into Italian and published within the collection DIMENSION KIEV by Rizzoli.
We are proud to see Nikitin’s name in a row with other famous Ukrainian authors like Taras Ševčenko, Jurij Andrukhovyč, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolaj Gogol’ or Olena Stiazhkina.
Dmitri Danilov’s most famous play MAN FROM PODOLSK , awarded with the «Golden Mask» (Russia’s most prestigious theatre award), will have premiere at the National Theatre of Greece on October 14 2022. An absolutely ordinary young man, an electro musician and resident of the Moscow-area city of Podolsk, finds himself in an ordinary Moscow police station. He’s being held for no apparent reason, no explanations, he committed no crime.
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.
The license for the German edition of Taras Prokhasko’s short novel ONE COULD MAKE SEVERAL STORIES FROM THIS has been refreshed for Suhrkamp.
In Dmitri Danilov’s new novel SASHA, HELLO! prisons are now called Combinat, you live like in a luxury hotel. Executions are no longer carried out by executioners. Instead, a warden takes you out for a walk every day through the same hallway, where one fine day you will be torn to pieces by a salvo of an algorithm controlled machine gun. This can happen in three days or in thirty years. As luck would have it. All humane, because you actually don‘t notice anything and can go on living your life as before.
The main character of the book is reminiscent of all the key figures of the most famous anti-utopias at once, from D-503 to Josef K., but the conditions in which he is placed have never been told in such a way. This novel moves right on the edge of the real.
Already 6 years ago in his book THE PUTIN SYSTEM, author Igor Eidman, cousin of the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, was asking the following questions: Is the whole world about to experience a long period of instability and social and political regression? Is Europe facing the threat of a major war?
This book was (and still is) an SOS from a Russian expert. He has lived through the end of democracy in his own country and he sees the need to warn readers outside Russia of the comparable risks facing their own countries. In a new preface and epilogue the author is now reflecting the Russian aggression March 2022.
For uncovering an in-house corruption scandal in the early 2010ths, Eidman lost his job and, seeing himself and his family under increased pressure, emigrated to Germany. He lives in Berlin.
The twenties of the 19th century. In Greece there is a war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. The revolutionaries have many sympathisers throughout Europe who are willing to voluntarily defend the old culture and fight to preserve the old greatness. This is what they are called: Philhellenes – lovers of the Greeks.
Leonid Yuzefovich’s historical novel PHILHELLENES, told in the form of letters, diary entries and mental conversations of absent heroes, focuses not only on the Philhellenes of the Urals. Numerous people and representatives of different nations and social classes come to word, which paints a multi-faceted picture of a bygone era.
We proudly announce that Serhii Rudenko’s political biography, the only one written by a Ukrainian author, has now hit the 25 in the number of sold languages.
Confirmed sales of rights, many of them already published:
ALBANIAN /FAN NOLI
CZECH / KNIHA ZLIN
DANISH/ WORD PUBLISHING
DUTCH / ATLAS-CONTACT
ENGLISH (WORLD)/ POLITY BOOKS
ESTONIAN / TÄNAPÄEV
FINNISH / TAMMI
GEORGIAN / SIESTA
GERMAN / HANSER
HUNGARIAN / HELIKON
ICELAND/ UTGAFAN
ITALIAN / NUTRIMENTI
JAPANESE / PHP INSTITUTE INC.
LATVIAN/ LATVIAS MEDIJ
LITHUANIAN / ALMA LITTERA
MONGOLIAN/ MIRNOM
NORTHERN MACEDONIAN / SHKUPI
NORWEGIAN / GYLDENDAL
POLISH / POZNANSKIE
PORTUGUESE / CASA DAS LETRAS
ROMANIAN / EDITURA ART
SLOVAK / LINDENI
SLOVENIA/ UCILA INTERNATIONAL
SPANISH / EDITORIAL PINOLIA
SWEDISH/ WORD PUBLISHING