Step

Oksana Vasyakina

To be published: 2 April 2025


The Steppe. In the hot summer of 2010, when the European part of Russia was engulfed by fires, a 20-year-old girl arrives from Siberia to meet her father, whom she hasn’t seen for ten years. Together they set off on a long journey in his truck and their destination is the untamed steppe in the south of the country. The father, who considers this inhospitable expanse his home and only possession, would like to share it with his grown daughter. However, the taiga-born girl is rather frightened by the open landscape and finds it strange.

Neutečeš

Lukáš Hrdlička

To be published: 9 April 2025


You won’t get away. In the Christmas time, two boys hanging out in Prague’s Anděl district have their lives changed when a quick burglary turns into a terrifying encounter with an organised drug trafficking group. At the same time, a new client comes to private detective Kob – she wants to track down her son at any cost.

Zástava dechu

Lucie Koudelková Jesenská

To be published: 16 April 2025


Breathlessness. The novel resonates in a colourful and multi-layered way with the contemporary societal theme of how to be a good mother. The whirlwind of events during a single day in the life of a mother of two young children, between tender moments of parental love, heated conflicts and sheer exhaustion, are accompanied by metaphors and images of a time when women walked the world with bared breasts and drank water from springs, in short, of a time when a child’s mother was an entire community, long before plastic jungles and playgrounds.

Říkali mu Gojele

aneb židovská dobrodružství křesťanského chlapce, když skončilo šoa

Karl von Wetzky

To be published: Q2 2024


Gojele. The Jewish adventures of a Christian boy after the end of Shoah. Gojele is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells a story of a twelve-year-old German boy. After World War II, owing to administrative oversight, the boy found himself with his mother in northern Moravia. It was a place in the former Sudetenland (Weidenitz – Vidnava) near the Polish border, where Jews returning from concentration camps were gathered before they were supposed to move to Palestine. Meanwhile, the intended destination for the boy and his mother was actually one of the gathering places for Sudeten Germans before their expulsion from Czechoslovakia (Weidenau – Vidnice).

Pakt

Stalin, Hitler a příběh jedné vražedné aliance 1939–1941

Claudia Weber

To be published: Q2 2024


The Pact. Stalin, Hitler and the Story of a Murderous Alliance 1939–1941. Hitler’s alliance with Stalin, known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, was not only a temporary armstice between the two totalitarian world powers but practically enabled the Nazi Germany to start the World War II by attacking Poland and simultaneously enabled the Stalinist Soviet Union to occupy the Baltic states and after the war with Finland a part of its territory, too. Thus during the first twenty-two months of the World War II the collaboration of the two dictators changed the political situation on the whole continent fundamentally.

Mama Odessa

Maxim Biller

To be published: Q3 2025


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.

Montana

To be published: Q4 2025

Alexandru Popescu’s debut novel Montana, published before the outbreak of the Russian war in
Ukraine, reflects the existential path of a Transnistrian child towards a free world, conditioned by
the political reality of the region. The book is a direct lens fresco of social life in Transnistria
between two worlds that give birth to particular destinies, bearing all the imprints of this
experience and all the signs of damnation that the central character tried to overcome, rising above
the void.

Sfumato: Let mrtvých ptáků

To be published: Q3 2025

Sfumato. Dead birds are flying. Welcome to Russia 2032. There is peace in the world. Russia, Europe, the United States and China signed a convention ten years ago that completely ruled out a nuclear war of aggression. Tired of the Kremlin‘s aggression, the world community reached 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 and only occasionally checks whether foreign policy agreements are respected. Human rights or repression within Russia are considered to be their internal affair. Russia is fenced and the borders are closed. America is no longer the enemy, the rhetoric has changed completely…

Smrt dokonalé věty

To be published: Q4 2025

The Death of a Perfect Sentence. This thoughtful spy novel cum love story 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.

Jeden oceán, dvě moře, tři kontinenty

To be published: Q4 2025

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…

An adventure novel and a tale of the formation of “one ocean, two seas and three continents” plunges this little-known figure from history, a real-life African Candide armed with inexhaustible compassion, into a series of adventures that will challenge his faith in God and man.

Wilfried N’Sondé, full of poetic fervour and generous honesty, has written a stunning appeal to tolerance, extolling the essential virtues of equality, fraternity and hope.

Jeden den v životě Abeda Salamy

To be published: Q4 2025

Day in a 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.

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