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        July 2020

        Delphine über den Dächern

        Ein Ballettroman aus Paris

        by Odette Joyeux, Hildegard Lest, Polina Semionova

        »Beide wollen die Hauptrolle. Doch nur eine wird sie bekommen …« Die verträumte Delphine wächst bei ihrer verwitweten Mutter auf, die viele Opfer bringt, damit ihre Tochter Ballett tanzen darf. Ganz anders Julie: Die Tochter aus reichem Hause ist verzärtelt, stets von sich überzeugt und Liebling ihrer Lehrerin. Beide besuchen die Ballettklasse der Pariser Opera Garnier und bekommen die Chance, an der Seite des umschwärmten Solisten Ivan Barlof die Galatea zu tanzen. Als Delphine die Rolle ergattert und Julie nur zweite Besetzung wird, sinnt sie auf Rache und stellt der arglosen Delphine eine Falle, die alles verändern wird … Seit Generationen lieben Mädchen und ihre Mütter die Geschichte der kleinen Pariser Elevin Delphine und ihrer Widersacherin Julie. Die Autorin – einst selber Ballettschülerin an der Opera Garnier – gewährt einen realistischen Einblick in die häufig romantisierte, in Wahrheit recht unbarmherzige Welt des klassischen Balletts. Und berührt gleichsam die universellen Themen an der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden: Leistungsdruck, Versagensangst, das wechselhafte Gefühl zum eigenen Körper oder der Wunsch, sich zu behaupten. Das wahrscheinlich schönste Ballettbuch aller Zeiten – endlich neu aufgelegt! Illustriert von Leanne Shapton.

      • Biography & True Stories
        January 2021

        Dostoevsky In Love

        An Intimate Life

        by Alex Christofi

        'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amidst all this, he found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, works now recognised as among the finest ever written. In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the author's work with the historical context to form an illuminating and often surprising whole. The result is a novelistic life that immerses the reader in a grand vista of Dostoevsky's world: from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling halls of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg. Along the way, Christofi relates the stories of the three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevsky's: the consumptive widow Maria; the impetuous Polina who had visions of assassinating the Tsar; and the faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to secure his literary legacy.   Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written had life - and literary stardom - not intervened. He gives us a new portrait of the artist as never before seen: a shy but devoted lover, an empathetic friend of the people, a loyal brother and friend, and a writer able to penetrate to the very depths of the human soul.

      • Imprint. Ukrainian printmaking of the XX – XXI centuries

        by Compiled by Kateryna Tykhonenko. Texts by Iryna Borovets, Yuliya Vaganova, Olga Lagutenko, Polina Limina, Kateryna Pidhaina, Oleh Sydor-Hibelynda

        The publication Imprint. Ukrainian printmaking of the XX – XXI centuries is devoted to the study of Ukrainian printmaking from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The collection offers an examination of the transformation of the imprint and the different generational relationships among artists, phenomena and trends. In particular, the book presents a catalog of printed graphics from the exhibition in the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

      • Picture books
        April 2021

        Do you have some time?

        by Sophia Dartzali

        Clocks measure time; that’s their job. A cuckoo clock, gifted by this grandfather, will become a boy’s best friend. The cuckoo watches the boy grow up, sharing his joys and sorrows and all of his moments. Until he wishes to stop the clock so they can stay together for ever… Will time obey? A book about moments, beginnings and endings, but most importantly, continuum. The poetic language and intuitive illustrations make a beautiful, touching story about the circle of life.

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