Maria Turtschaninoff’s Naondel sold to Latvia

Naondel, Maria Turtschaninoff’s gentle fantasy and a prequel to her Finlandia Junior-winning Maresi, has been sold to Latvia. Petergailis Publishers published Maresi earlier this year, to reviews such as this one from Diena newspaper: “The skillfully conjured, relaxed, subtly visual and slightly estranged atmosphere of the text is, despite the harsh culmination episode, dominated by delicate melancholy.”

Petergailis was glad to continue The Red Abbey Chronicles with the publication of Naondel: “Petergailis is proud to publish in Latvian this beautiful work, Naondel, the second book of Maria Turtschaninoff’s Red Abbey Chronicles. Despite the horrific events of the story, Naondel is quiet and beautifully told,” said Kaspars Eizentals of Petergailis.

An independent prequel to Maresi, Naondel tells the story of the First Sisters – founders of the Red Abbey. Imprisoned in a harem by a dangerous man, with a dark magic that grants him power over life and death, the women must overcome their mistrust of each other in order to escape. But they can only do so at a great cost, both for those who leave and those left behind.