Leonid Yuzefovich – Winter Road

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French edition published by Noir sur Blanc

In St. Petersburg the Bolsheviks have already won the Civil War. But in the far east of Siberia, the Yakuts have dared to launch the final uprising against the Red Army. In his twice award-winning non-fictional novel WINTER ROAD, Leonid Yuzefovich is able to portray deeper human motives: the love, passion and individual suffering that are buried in the ideology are revealed and the characters shown to be both oppressor and victim. In the end each individual is responsible for the Russian tragedy.

Sergei Loiko – political thriller about flight MH17

The Flight

Enspired by true events, extensive research and war reporting of the former prize-winning Moscow Los Angeles Times correspondent. So far 4 languages sold.

This week the trial has opened in the Netherlands of three Russians and a Ukrainian – still at large – for the murder of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 amid the conflict in eastern Ukraine, after Russian-backed rebels seized the area. Investigators say they have proof the Buk missile system that shot it down came from a military base in Russia.

Sergei Loiko covered the Ukrainian revolution and the subsequent war virtually nonstop from the first day until 2015. In 2014, for this reporting, Loiko was awarded one of the highest prizes in American journalism, the Overseas Press Club’s Bob Considine Award, “for its guts, credibility, originality, depth and sophistication of interpretation, and its engaging writing style”. He has also been awarded the prestigious Los Angeles Times editorial award for “Best Reporting in 2014”.

«The mainspring and quality of this novel is the human suffering and desire to discover the truth about the circumstances involved in the shooting down flight MH-17. This turns the novel into a genuine political thriller, one that we desperately need in our post-fac- tual world to be able to penetrate the cloud of lies covering the squalid conflict in the Ukraine.» Sergei Medvedev, Historian

New titles spring 2020 – London / Paris / Leipzig book fairs

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Aleksei Fedyarov – Sfumato: Dead Birds are flying.

Welcome to Russia 2032. There is peace in the world. The world community has signed an agreement with Russia: in exchange for its own security, the West no longer cares how the Russian government treats its citizens under its isolated power. Russia is fenced and the borders are closed. The taiga is almost entirely cut down, the Chinese – Russia’s ‘fraternal allies’ – have founded productive farms on the permafrost. The whole country is divided into ‘clusters’: the more critical you are of the regime, the further away from Moscow you are banished.

This frightening dystopia, explicitly not post-apocalyptic, rather develops consistently from today’s political realities.

„An evil and sad dystopia – and the saddest part is that it’s probably true. The purity and power of its first part is in no way inferior to Orwell’s despair.“ VIKTOR SHENDEROVICH

 

Dmitry Zakharov – Middle Edda

New graffiti appears in Moscow week after week each representing a different member of the new bureaucratic nomenklatura – each of whom dies shortly afterwards. Spin doctors close to the Kremlin are frantically trying to reveal the identity of the anonymous artist. Other representatives of the corrupt vertical power are ready to pay huge sums for the next graffiti to show one of their opponents. A battle starts between those those really pulling the strings in the struggle for future power.

„Exactly the novel about here and now that we have been missing for so long. Chamber play and global epos at the same time; an emotional story about living people, an exciting thriller, a razor-sharp, socially critical drama.“ GALINA YUZEFOVICH

 

Olga Pogodina-Kuzmina – Uranium

1953, year of Stalin’s death. Soviet Estonia. The secret site, Combinat No. 7, is intended to ensure the uninterrupted supply of uranium for the Soviet nuclear project. A number of mysterious deaths suddenly puts everything in a different light. The external investigator sent from Leningrad encounters communist leaders engaging in cult and religious-orthodox occult practices, hypnosis and manipulation, sex and violence. The murders are brutal clues to who is really related to whom and how.

Like an exciting Netflix series, the plot of this historical novel, which is also a spy thriller, is told horizontally from the different perspectives.

“Nothing less than the exciting experience of fully immersing yourself into history, its reconstruction illuminating the mentalities of the time, but also trying to understand many of the central contradictions of that time.“ LITERATURNAYA GAZETA

 

Max Maximov – Gate to Heaven

Maximov’s short novels deliver science fiction in the best tradition of the Strugatski brothers. After a long predominance of purely entertaining genre literature such as fantasy, horror or post-apocalypse, in Russia his books are seen as an original revival of philosophical science fiction. They are also timely parables exploring guilt and innocence, hell and paradise, life and spirit, nothingness and the morality of algorithms.

GATE TO HEAVEN is a novel about consciousness, the soul and artificial intelligence.

Maximov has 3.14m YouTube followers and 100,000 downloads of his novels per year.

 

Aleksandr Fuflygin – God’s Plan. The interpretation of truth.

The task that the author has set himself is a bold one: to provide a reading with which all the mysteries of the Bible can be solved in a comprehensible way, not contradicting the latest scientific findings and leaving no ‘blank spots’ in his interpretation of the Bible.

The seemingly most incomprehensible things, phenomena, events or images in the Bible, such as the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Knowledge, the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the Flood and Noah’s Ark, the resurrection of Jesus and much more, suddenly take on a clear meaning in this reading.

For confirmed Orthodox believers the book might be a sacrilege. More open-minded spirits, whether religious or agnostic, will be more and more astonished with every further Bible verse. One often puts the book aside with a pounding heart and asks oneself, ‘This can’t be true!’

Lev Danilkin – Lenin, Totem Letters. A biography

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Spanish rights sold to Almuzara Libros

Lev Danilkin’s LENIN is quite different and more than just another biography. Lev Danilkin, one of Russia‘s most advanced literary critics, is exploring Lenin as a phenomenon. He composed the book in an unorthodox and original way – geographically, taking the reader on a discovery route to the places of Lenin’s active work.

„This book is an injection of sound reason, justice and healthy anger.“  Dmitri Bykov
„No trace of dust and patina.“  Galina Yuzefovich

PLEASE NOTE: 2020 is 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birthday and 2024 is 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death.
Short version for translations (480 pages) revised by the author himself.

Aleksei Ivanov – Riot Gold

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Arabic rights to Dar al-Kutub

Aleksei Ivanov’s historical novel ZOLOTO BUNTA – RIOT GOLD is one of several novels about the cruel medieval past of Siberia.

1778. The Urals are smoky by mining plants. And for factories there is only one road to Russia – the rough river Chusovaya. But here the barks with factory iron are ruthlessly destroyed by coastal rocks. For the rafters, who lead the barks on the river stremnins, there is a way to avoid the wreckage: to ask Satan for help, and transfer their immortal soul to a schismatic sect. However, the young raftingman Ostash raises a revolt against the sect. The reason, it seems, is in the gold of the Pugachev treasure hidden somewhere on the rocks.

 

Ivan Bunin – Dark Alleys

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Spanish rights to Navona

Due to historical circumstances during and also after the Cold War, only recently the successors of Bunin’s relatives and rightful heirs could be traced completely and thus The Bunin Estate has now been legally reconstituted. Wiedling Literary Agency is representing all works by Ivan Bunin worldwide with the exception of Russia and France.

The first russian Nobel Prize winner for literature has a come back because Russian readers feel that a next heavy political turning point will hit Russian society between 2021-24 which is hundred years after Bunin’s view on the Revolution of 1917.

Aleksei Ivanov – Nenast’e

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French rights to Payot et Rivages

A Russian provincial town the 90ies where after the collaps of the Soviet Union mafia groups that still obey rules of comradeship and „honesty“ bring kind of stability to the town. But slowly they are pushed aside by other mendacious and „dishonest“ guys who are seeking their private financial profit only. A late revenge of one of the old „honest“ guys brings the situation to escalation.

NENAST’E is a contemporary novel where Aleksei Ivanov is using a thriller plot for his emotional caleidoscope and realistic analysis of the Russian provincial society developing after the end of the Soviet Union.

Roman Senchin – «Rain in Paris» sold to Noir sur Blanc/ France

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It is raining in Paris. Russian tourist Andrei hardly comes out of the hotel room, but travels – against his will, but with a lot of alcohol – deep into his own past. So far suppressed by the events of everyday life, they rise from the depths to the surface. Internally, however, the sun comes out more often and illuminates the dark spots of that time.

The sincerity and accuracy of the author, the attention to detail create the vivid and truthful image of a forty-year-old man and his life in the Russian province. The hero and the reader with him become gradually aware: Without understanding the past, people have no future.

“«Rain in Paris» is also a kind of crypto-remake, an encrypted on many levels exten- sive allusion to Oblomov.“
HOMO LEGENS

French translation rights to RAIN IN PARIS by Roman Senchin have been sold to Noir sur Blanc. This will be Senchin’s fourth novel in French translation.

Ivan Bunin – «Cursed Days» sold to Acantilado/ Spain

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Spanish language rights for one of the most famous works by Ivan Bunin, his diary on the Russian Revolution, have been sold to Acantilado.

Due to historical circumstances during and also after the Cold War, only recently the successors of Bunin’s relatives and rightful heirs could be traced completely and thus The Bunin Estate has now been legally reconstituted.

Wiedling Literary Agency is representing all works by Ivan Bunin worldwide with the exception of Russia and France.