Darya Bobyleva – The Courtyard

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Moscow urban horror

In Darya Bobyleva’s second horror novel THE COURTYARD ON THE BRINK OF MIDNIGHT the author moves the plot from the countryside to an anonymous city courtyard somewhere in Moscow’s old town center – a space that is both open and separated from the outside world by a clear natural boundary. A bakery in the courtyard above, a river below, the garages in the middle and next to them a bird cemetery where the children bury pigeons, rats, hamsters and, with a bit of luck, even a cat. There is a dangerous balance between these neighborhoods, thanks to an all-female family of fortune tellers living in the corner house.

«There are no limits to despair and death… Impossible to tear yourself away from the book.» DARK

Denis Puzyrev – A Recent History of Russia in 14 Bottles of Vodka

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How the Number One Russian Drink Draws Together Business, Corruption and Crime

Denis Puzyrev’s non-fiction title A RECENT HISTORY OF RUSSIA IN 14 BOTTLES OF VODKA is a research within the incredibly profitable Vodka business. Where there is money, there is blood, power, dizzying ups and downs and, of course, silence. This book speaks up about these super-lucrative assets and universally known brands, opens the public‘s eyes to the events of the past thirty years and shows them from an unexpected and thrilling point of view.

Dmitri Danilov – Sasha, hello!

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Spanish translation rights sold to Entorno Grafico

Dmitri Danilov’s double award winning novel SASHA, HELLO! is welcoming us to the new Russia. 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.

John Lough – Germany’s Russia Problem

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UK political expert about Germany’s Russia Problem

John Lough is an Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (since 2009) and a regular commentator on Russian and Ukrainian affairs. He spent six years with NATO managing information programmes aimed at Central and Eastern Europe, including a posting to Moscow, where he set up NATO’s Information Office in Russia and was the first Alliance official to be permanently based in the country.

In this bold and original analysis, John Lough explains the scale of the challenge facing Germany as it strives to design policies for managing its relations with a changing Russia. GERMANY’S RUSSIA PROBLEM looks at the role of German business interests and Germany’s vulne- rability to Russian interference, including misinformation and cyber attacks. It concludes by considering how Germany can strengthen its position against Russian influence in the future.

”I have found John Lough‘s Germany‘s Russia Problem an ideal book as we contemplate the source of energy we will draw on for heat and light in the decades ahead.” TLS

”The title of John Lough‘s book itself makes clear that this is not another academic sand box exercise. He wants to make things better.” DIE WELT

”John Lough has written a stimulating book rich in knowledge.” FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE

Marina Aromshtam – Little Suitcase Travel

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Children’s book for Refugees

Marina Aromshtam wrote her recent book LITTLE SUITCASE TRAVEL during Covid to comfort children (from age 4) with the prospect of freedom to travel again soon. After she herself had to flee from Russia into exile and after so many mothers and families have to flee from danger to other safer countries, this book took on a completely different, deeper meaning.

The book with illustrations by Vera Korotaeva has been awarded the Russian Kornei Chukovsky Prize in 2020. Only two years later, the author would be considered an enemy of Russia.

Full English sample translation available.

Zaza Burchuladze – Zoorama

Book of the Year / Book of the Century

Georgian press about ZOORAMA

On two Georgian TV shows the new novel ZOORAMA (Scent of a Rose) by Zaza Burchuladze was praised as BOOK OF THE YEAR.
Radio Liberty dedicated a 2-hour broadcast to the book, celebrating it as the BOOK OF THE CENTURY.

There is an animal in each of us, they say. But is there also a human being in each of us?

Everything gets out of hand. Especially if you live in isolation with your family. First you lose the words. Then the sex. And you end up living in a high-rise that is hermetically sealed off, has a café, cinema and anti-aircraft defenses, and that houses fugitive generals, armed civilians and escaped zoo animals alike. Zoorama is the venomous mixture of an insane world.

“Many Eastern Europeans today have to flee to the West again out of fear, into exile. One of these refugees is Zaza Burchuladze… The country that you bring with you into exile is only as big as the soles of your feet and the sadness in your head. And only the homesickness we brought with us is as big as the country on the map.“ HERTA MÜLLER

After agressive press, a severe insult on the radio by former president Saakashvili, physical attacks on the street of Tiflis and ultraorthodox publicly burning his books, he had to flee to Germany with his family. Today he lives and works in Berlin.

Anna Berseneva – Trilogy

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100 years of tragic

From 1924 in Belarus to Algier, Paris, Moscow, continuing in the 1930s-1950s to the Far East and back via Polesie to Germany and finally ending 2022 in Russia.

Anna Berseneva’s new TRILOGY is upmarket entertaining literature that does not require kitsch and has believable characters but is nowhere near as dark as a book dedicated to history could be – and yet it is honest and presents the past in three dimensions using the example of a family saga.

Berseneva’s books have a total circulation in Russia of about 5 million copies. Fifteen novels have been filmed. Berseneva has left Russia and lives in Germany now.

Oleg Navalny – 3 ½ With Prisoner’s Respect and Fraternal Warmth

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brother of Alexei Navalny about Russian prison

In December 2014, the Navalny brothers, Oleg and Alexei, were convicted in Russia. Alexei got 3 years of probation, while Oleg Navalny was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Although the European court of human rights ruled that the convictions were arbitrary and unfair, Oleg served the entire term, 1278 days.

His book 3 ½ WITH PRISONER’S RESPECT AND FRATERNAL WARMTH, mostly written in prison, gives an account of everything that happened to him during that time. You will find out what is the difference between the red and the black zone, what prison sheets and towels are for, where to hide a sim card during a search and more. And this book is about remaining resilient even in the most outrageous, horrible and bizarre circumstances.

“All stories about prison are to a certain extent similar to each other, like road movies. Therefore, what is important, who talks about the prison and how. Navalny’s book is a book about how not to get lost even in the most wild, terrible and ridiculous circumstances.“AFISHA

Petr Aleshkovski – A Russian Chronicle of the War

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published in diaspora

Aleshkovki‘s position is clear from the first line. The experience and horror of what happened is not hushed up, on the contrary, it is the driving force behind the book. The book was published in Israel because the author would have faced a long prison sentence in Russia.

This RUSSIAN CHRONICLE OF THE WAR contains impressions of a journey through a country at war, but on whose territory no hostilities are taking place. But the war is felt by every cell of the body, and surprisingly the author met many who were against the war against the brother people of Ukraine from the very beginning.

London Book Fair 2023

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Ukraine, Russian diaspora, authors at risk

Right in time for LIBF 2023 we are ready to present half a dozen new names on the agency’s list. The agency has opened its platforms to many new well-known authors, who now feel cut off both from their domestic audience and even more so from the foreign book market like Petr Aleshkovski, Anna Berseneva, Ivan Davydov, Oleg Navalny, Denis Puzyrev and others.

As the interest of publishers is also subject to new criteria, we have rearranged our author’s list by locations: Ukrainian, Russian Diaspora, Russia and smaller countries like Belorusia, Georgia, Lithuania or Uzbekistan.

We have compiled various rights lists for your faster orientation. Please see our HOMEPAGE for more and also for the full rights list sorted by genres.

All our various lists are for direct download from the website as pdf. And now you may just click on an author name on the front page of each list to get direct web-info.