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Better Not to Talk Aloud, a novel by Józef Mackiewicz
Original Polish title: Nie trzeba głośno mówić
Rights status: available for all languages less Polish and Lithuanian.
Published by: Polish - KOSTRA, Lithuanian - BRIEDIS
An epic sequel to Droga donikąd (Road to Nowhere) and a panoramic view of the Nazi occupation and the maze of underground resistance networks that opposed each other as much as they fought the Germans. The largest underground organisation, the Home Army, although linked to the Polish Government in Exile, facilitated the "liberation" by the Red Army.
Read moreAnimator, a novel by Andrei Volos (2004)
Shortlisted for National Literary Award Big Book (2006, Russia)
Rights sold: Germany – HANSER, Finland – BAZAR, Italy – Frassinelli, Turkey – DOGAN KITAP
Andrei Volos may be the first writer living in contemporary Russia to produce a work of fiction grounded in the ongoing nightmare of terrorism in Chechnya, the surrounding pro- separatist provinces and the Russian capital, Moscow. A native of Dushanbe, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Tadzhikistan, Volos has a knack for immersing the reader in the very complexity of the events we tend to hear about from mass media—a newspaper headline, an Internet article, a TV reportage. Operation “Resurrection” is the first fictionalized account of the conflict that takes a stab at portraying the events through a series of believable, well fleshed-out characters from both sides of the fence, Russian and Muslim alike. Volos successfully mixes reality with the supernatural, giving the...
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