Mother Odessa. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel Mama Odessa presents a view of the turbulent fate of Jews in the 20th century. It tells the story of a Russian-Jewish family from Odessa and artfully connects different time periods: Odessa during World War II, including the massacre of Odessa’s Jews in 1941, the late Stalinist period when the KGB persecuted the narrator’s father, emigration, and the present.
To be published: Q3 2025
This suspenseful novel with elements of a thriller by a young Moldovan writer is set in his native Transnistria. It captures the grim reality of post-Soviet Moldova, mainly through the eyes of a child: poverty and life “behind the wall” in a railway cars converted into dwellings. Part of this reality is the civil war of the early 1990s and the emergence of the pro-Russian “Transnistrian Republic.”
To be published: Q4 2025
The Death of a Perfect Sentence. This thoughtful spy novel and love story in one is set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. A group of young pro-independence dissidents devise an elaborate scheme for smuggling copies of KGB files out of the country, and their fates become entangled, through family and romantic ties, with the security services never far behind them.
To be published: Q4 2025
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, rushes to the chaotic site, only to find Milad has already been taken away. Abed sets off on a journey to learn Milad’s fate, navigating a maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must face as a Palestinian.
To be published: Q1 2026
One ocean, two seas, three continents. His name was Nsaku Ne Vunda and he was born around 1583 on the banks of the Congo River. An orphan raised in respect for his ancestors and traditions, educated by missionaries, baptised on the day of his ordination at Dom Antonio Manuel, he was commissioned by the Bakong King here at the very beginning of the 17th century to become his envoy to the Pope. As he bids farewell to his native Congo, the young priest is unaware that the long journey that is to take him to Rome will eventually lead to the New World and that the ship he is about to embark on is loaded with slaves…
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