Voroshilovgrad

• Author's band, Sobaky v Kosmose, touring the US in November, limited edition, edited translation ARCs available for the band's tour• Additional ARCs available upon request• Book launch and author appearance at PEN World Voices in NYC and/or Book Expo America in May 2016• Author reading tour across the US planned around release of novel, targeting bookstore and university audiences• Promotion through the Ukrainian Embassy's Cultural Services division• Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social reading websites• Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum)• Promotion in the publisher’s e-newsletter• Promotion at the Texas Book Festival, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, and Book Expo America• Author op-eds on Ukraine will be pitched to New York Times, The Guardian, and Washington Post• Pitching for author appearances at book festivals around the US, such as Brooklyn Book Festival, Texas Book Festival (Austin), Litquake (San Francisco), Miami Book Fair International, PEN World Voices (NYC), Book Expo America (Chicago)• Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book sections, especially the Dallas Morning News• Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social reading websites• Serial rights targeting Granta, Words Without Borders, Asymptote, The White Review; One Story, The Paris Review, Guernica, Tin House, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, and others• Publicity targeting The New Inquiry, The Millions, Full-Stop, The Nervous Breakdown, HTMLGIANT, Three Percent, The Literary Saloon, The Quarterly Conversation, and more• Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and magazines and on their websites, such as Granta, The Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Little Star, The Coffin Factory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature, Entropy, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today and others

'Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop.' -- Newsweek World Literature Today's Recommended Summer Reads 2016 A city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and expressive prose. Serhiy Zhadan, one of the key figureheads in contemporary Ukrainian literature and the most famous poet in the country, has become the voice of Ukraine's 'Euro-Maidan' movement. He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Sergey Zhadan - Сергей Жадан

Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing

Language:English

Publication Date:2016

Format:Paperback

Width:133 mm / 5,2'

Height:209 mm / 8,2'

Weight:467 g

ISBN:9781941920305