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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 moreInhabitants of the Funny Cemetery, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2019)
Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, Russia - EKSMO
Winner of the 2019 Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Russian Author Award
Inhabitants of the Funny Cemetery is a panoramic novel which vividly brings to life the worlds of three generations of Russian émigrés in Paris. To recap, the Russian emigration began with the October Revolution and continued apace for two decades, meaning that by the start of the Second World War almost 80,000 Russians had established themselves in France. Paris quickly became the capital of the Russian emigration, not to be replaced by New York until the middle of the century.
The novel contains multiple voices, including three first-person protagonists, whose voices start to overlap, to intertwine, and set off unexpected echoes. The novel’s main narrator is the Soviet émigré Viktor Lipatov (not necessarily his real name), a former dissident who spent several years in psychiatric detention, fled to America, and then arrived...
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