Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, Hello!

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the new novel by Danilov about the horror of soft dictatorship

Book of the Year 2022 | Yasnaya Polyana Award 2022 (sponsored by Samsung)

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.

Igor Eidman – The Putin System for Poland

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Polish language rights sold to Harde

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.

Leonid Yuzefovich – Philhellenes for Serbia

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Serbian translation rights sold to Russika

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.

Serie Rudenko – Zelenskyi without make-up – 25 languages

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the political biography by Serhii Rudenko

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

Lada Luzina – Witches of Kyiv for Poland

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Polish language rights for 2 volumes of the series sold to Insignis

Kyiv has been considered not only the centre of the Christian orthodox faith but also the witches’ capital since time immemorial. Many Russian-Ukrainian artists (Mikhail Vrubel), authors (Mikhail Bulgakov) and musicians (Modest Mussorgsky) have drawn on this tradition. The settings are all so authentic that the series WITCHES OF KYIV by Lada Luzina can almost be read as an alternative guide book. With a detailed portrait of both contemporary and historical Kyiv the author tempts the reader into a world where reality is hardly distinguishable from the phantastic plot.

In this book a real demon has returned to Kyiv and none other than the three witches are able to protect the town from his curse and from a third murder. Wishful thinking when the author started to write the series, but already 15 years ago the young generation in Ukraine and especially in the big cities was full of positive plans, dreams and wishes for their own future free of old demons.

Pavel Belyanski – Grandma did not love to die

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Estonian language rights sold to Eesti Ramaat

Pavel Belyanski’s 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.

Pavel Belyanski has joined Ukraine forces at the moment to defend his country against Russian aggressors.

Sergei Gerasimov – Notes from Kharkiv in German and Hungarian

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German edition published by dtv, Hungarian edition published by Helikon

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 and thus a perfect book for memorial day of beginning of war in February every year.