MARESI is now sold to 27 territories!

We cannot be happier to announce that  MARESI by Maria Turtschaninoff has now been sold to 27 territories!
The Lithuanian rights were bought by Aukso pieva. Rights were also recently acquired in Croatia by Naklada ljevak, in Azerbaijan by Alatoran and Bulgaria by Izida.

“Inspiring, powerful, sweeping… Impossible to put down.”
 – Judita Zidziuniene, publisher Aukso pieva, Lithuania on MARESI

This bestselling YA title has sold to already 27 territories, but the rights are still available in Russia, Czech Republic, Greece, Slovenia, Japan, Portugal and many other countries. See the rights sold list on the right.

MARESI is the first title in The Red Abbey Chronicles and an international feature film is under development by Film4/The Bureau.
MARESI RED MANTLE, book 3 in the trilogy,  was awarded earlier this year the 2020 Global Literature in Libraries Translated Book Prize, as the best translated book of the year!

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THE RED ABBEY CHRONICLES
by Maria Turtschaninoff

The Red Abbey is a refuge for women and girls, where everyone pursues their own areas of interest. Maresi prefers to spend her time reading and learning.
Everything changes when the frightened Jai arrives on the island. She has seen her sister get buried alive for speaking to a young man, and her father and a crew of thugs are after her. Maresi and her friends have to fight to defend both Jai and their community.

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES:

“It’s hard not to be impressed with Turtschaninoff’s magical world”
– The Times

”The novel (Maresi) is at once contemporary and timeless. Its unwavering feminism is resolutely modern, resonating with a range of texts from Ursula Le Guin’s 2001 Tales from Earthsea to Disney’s Frozen. At the same time, it feels authentically ancient and mythic.”
– The Guardian
’A prequel (Naondel) that introduces the founding sisters of the all-female Red Abbey… their interwoven stories told with unflinching clarity, rise to a vengeful climax with the glow of the red moon, and will stay with the reader long after the book is closed’
– The Guardian

“Maresi Red Mantle is a stirring epistolary novel that presents a young woman caught between two homes, cultures, and communities. It is the concluding title in the Red Abbey Chronicles trilogy, but we were very impressed with how beautifully it works as a stand-alone title.”
– Committee Chair Annette Y. Goldsmith,
–The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative, Translated YA Book Prize 2020