Maresi: Red Mantle

Maria Turtschaninoff

Original title: Maresin voima

Author: Maria Turtschaninoff

Published: 2018

Publisher: Förlaget

Genre: Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Pages: 300

Part of a series: Red Abbey Chronicles trilogy

Reading material:

English edition

The Red Abbey Chronicles is a historically-inspired feminist fantasy saga, aimed at young adult audiences.

✓  Rights sold in 31 territories!

✓ Maria Turtschaninoff is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2020-2024), and winner of the 2014 Finlandia Prize!

✓  INHERITED LAND, Maria Turtschaninoff’s first adult fiction novel, has been awarded the prestigious Swedish YLE Literature Prize 2022

The third book is an epistolary novel that follows Maresi after she leaves the Red Abbey to establish a school in her oppressed home province of Rovas. The return to her Northern home, and fitting in, is not easy even with all the knowledge she’s bringing with her, but she is determined to triumph over the difficulties. However, she does not need to make it alone, for life has yet another surprise in store: love.

Praise:

“Strong ending for the fantasy trilogy”Vasabladet newspaper

“Turtschaninoff’s literary universe can be compared to that of the biggest names in the genre. Maresi: Red Mantle is a rich, skilled epistolary novel that shows that Maria Turtschaninoff gets better and better with each novel. She is an incomparable narrator.” – Yle Nyheter broadcaster

Maresi Red Mantle is a furious, skilfully written fantasy novel with nerve and presence. It makes the reader contemplate, but it also delivers a thunderous crescendo leading to the end battle, as the genre dictates.” – HBL newspaper

“Maresi: Red Mantle is a furious, skilfully written fantasy novel with nerve and presence. It makes the reader contemplate, but it also delivers a thunderous crescendo leading to the end battle, as the genre dictates.”

– HBL newspaper

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Rights sold:
FINLAND: Förlaget (orig. Finland-Swedish)

BRAZIL: Editora Morro Branco
BULGARIA: Izida
CHINA: Shanghai 99 Readers' Culture
HUNGARY: Scolar Kiado
ITALY: Atmosphere Libri
KOREA: Gimm Young Publishers
LITHUANIA: Aukso pieva
NORWAY: Gursli Berg Forlag
POLAND: Sonia Draga
RUSSIA: Eksmo
UNITED KINGDOM: Pushkin Press
UNITED STATES: Abrams Children's

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About author

Maria Turtschaninoff

Maria Turtschaninoff is known for crafting lyrical, historically inspired fantasy stories starring strong female protagonists. In addition to J.R.R. Tolkien, she counts Philip Pullman, Ursula K. Le Guin and C.S. Lewis among her favorite authors. She is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, winner of the Swedish YLE Literature Prize, winner of the Thank You for the Book Award, a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2020-2024), and winner of the 2014 Finlandia Junior Prize.

Her Red Abbey Chronicles YA trilogy has been sold into 30 languages, while her first adult novel Inherited Land has been sold to 23 territories. Maria has a Master of Arts in human ecology and works full-time as a writer.

Bibliography


2024, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Maria Turtschaninoff

The Manticore


2022, Literary Fiction

Maria Turtschaninoff

Inherited Land


2018, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Maria Turtschaninoff

Maresi: Red Mantle


2016, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Maria Turtschaninoff

Naondel


2014, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Maria Turtschaninoff

Maresi