Pavel Lembersky – Odesa is not on the Hudson

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stories about vanished and destroyed Odesa

Odesa, as we know, is currently under attack (almost daily), like so many Ukrainian cities. Pavel Lembersky’s collection of stories ODESA IS NOT ON THE HUDSON is paying tribute to the city rich in world-recognized literary tradition: chatty, irreverent, humorous, exuberant, ironic, whimsical. God knows, the irrepressible Odesans need that vibe in these dark times more than ever. But so does the world at large.

«Imagine Borges writing philosophical conceptual anecdotes using the sparkling language of Isaac Babel. Sometimes the significant parts are located in the breaks between phrases, and one can feel the draft of pain and despair blowing from those gaps which perhaps irony alone can suppress.» ANTON NESTEROV

Leonid Yuzefovich – Hike To Bar-Khoto

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Yasnaya Polyana Award 2024

In Leonid Yuzefovich’s latest and again award winning book, he brings history back to life by again empathizing with the mind of a historically authentic figure. These are the fictional but based on real events memoirs of the Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912–1914, when the Mongols defended their independence from China. The book intertwines the siege of the Chinese-occupied fortress of Bar-Khoto with love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, the First World War and Solodovnikov’s deportation from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. The hero rethinks his own life and, with it, the fate of a person in a critical epoch.

Aleksei Fedyarov – Sfumato Dead Birds are Flying – for Czech Republic

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Czech translation rights sold to Maraton Publishers

Welcome to Russia 2032. There is peace in the world. Russia, Europe, the United States and China signed a convention with Russia: in exchange for its own security, the West no longer cares how the Russian government treats its citizens under its isolated power and only occasionally checks whether foreign policy agreements are respected. Russia is fenced and the borders are closed.

The hyper-real political landscape of Aleksei Fedyarov’s novel SFUMATO – DEAD BIRDS ARE FLYING is explicitly not post-apocalyptic, but rather develops consistently from today’s political realities.

And Fedyarov knows both sides of the barbed wire by own experience. Lawyer by education he was an investigator for the public prosecutor’s office for ten years, then later as a business man sentenced and sent to a prison camp in the Urals, today a human rights activist and head of the legal department of a Charity Fund that helps Russian prisoners and their families.

Sergei Gerasimov – Nothing New on the Eastern Front

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a novel about the war in Ukraine based on true experiences

Since the beginning of the attack on Ukraine, Sergei Gerasimov has been staying in his apartment in Kharkiv writing writing writing. In addition to his Notes from Kharkiv, published as a non-fiction book and daily in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, since day one of the attack, he has now finished a fiction novel NOTHING NEW ON THE EASTERN FRONT. Permeated with true experiences, the fiction novel makes the great suffering the war has brought to Ukraine, with all its cruelty and psychological abysses tangible, understandable and bearable.

Finally, at the age of 32, Angelina marries Gleb, who as a twelve -year-old schoolboy climbed the 250-meter-high chimney of the disused Soviet factory as a sign of his love. What they don‘t know is that two days after their wedding, Russian tanks will roll through their small town and destroy everything. They don’t know yet that seven months of occupation with all its harrowing moments lie ahead.

“A disturbing testimony.“ FAZ

“A document of terror and a document of Ukrainian courage and resistance.“ WDR

Anna Starobinets – Vixen Hills for Hungary

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Hungarian language rights sold to Europa Könyvkiado

The newest novel VIXEN HILL by Anna Starobinets is a horror thriller in the genre of mystic realism takes. The action takes place in the Far East, on the border of the Soviet Union and Manchuria (China) in 1945, right after the end of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the region. The novel combi- nes the history of the USSR, Chinese mythology, Japanese genetic engineering and Siberian shamanism.

«Starobinets doesn‘t let the reader relax for a minute as she manages to keep up the hellish pace over seven hundred and something pages.» MEDUZA (Galina Yuzefovich)

Leonid Yuzefovich – Hike to Bar-Khoto for Serbia

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Serbian translation rights sold to Logos Publishers

Leonid Yuzefovich’s latest book is a fictional story with fictional characters – but in a real setting.

In the memoirs of a Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912-1914, when the Mongols were defending their independence from China, the siege of the Bar-Khoto fortress occupied by the Chinese, love for the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, and exile from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s are intertwined. Here the hero rethinks his own life, and thus the fate of a person in turning points.

Aleksei Ivanov – Fighting Rivers for Serbia

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Serbian translation rights sold to Russika

Aleksei Ivanov’s Siberian novel THE FIGHTING RIVERS is about the tragedy of Russia’s river fleet during the Revolution. It shows Russia at the beginning of the 20th century as a rapidly developing country with a huge advanced river fleet, almost entirely in private hands. This entire complex economic massif was practically blown up by the tragedy of 1917. The main plot happens within one and a half years only, during the odyssey of the smuggler „Levshino“, who in the battles on the Kama River in 1918-1919 has enough time to fight for the Reds, the Whites, the Greens and for himself.

A novel about a seemingly distant war. But under the magnifying glass of Ivanov‘s prose we see a truth hidden deep within that extends to contemporary Russia.

Anna Starobinets – Look At Him – for France

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French language rights sold to 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 Geographer drank the globe – for Spain

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Spanish translation rights sold to Plasson e Bartleboom

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