Life Went on Anyway

• Galleys mailing to all major review outlets as well as alternative review sources in March/April 2019 • Partnerships with PEN International and various Human Rights groups in local markets to sponsor events with translator in public appearances in the US planned for festivals, bookstores, and universities throughout 2019 & 2020 • Organize film screenings of The Trial (about the author's false trial in Russia) and Gamer (the author's lauded directing debut) • Serial rights targeting The New York Times, Calvert Journal, The New Yorker, The Guardian • Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book sections • 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-newsletters for weeks and months surrounding release • Promotion at publisher's booth at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), American Library Association Conference, Modern Languages Association Convention, Texas Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, Book Expo America, Dallas Book Festival, and Bay Area Book Festival. • Publicity targeting political amd literary outlets such as n+1, The New Yorker, The New Inquiry, The Millions,The New York Review of Books, and more • Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and magazines and on their websites, such as Words Without Borders, Asymptote, World Literature Today, Literary Hub, Granta, The Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Little Star, The Coffin Factory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature, and others

Timely, Tarkovskian collection of stories by Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause célèbreThe stories in Ukrainian film director, writer, and dissident Oleh Sentsov’s debut collection are as much acts of dissent as they are acts of creative expression. 

These autobiographical stories display a mix of nostalgia and philosophical insight, written in a simple yet profound style looking back on a life's path that led Sentsov to become an internationally renowned dissident artist. Sentsov's charges seemingly stem from his opposition to Russia's invasion and occupation of eastern Ukraine where he lived in the Crimea. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in August 2015 on spurious terrorism charges after he was kidnapped in his house and put through a grossly unfair trial by a Russian military court, marred by allegations of torture. Many of the stories included here were read during international campaigns by PEN International, the European Film Academy, and Amnesty International, among others, to support the case for Sentsov across the world. 

Sentsov's final words at his trial, "Why bring up a new generation of slaves?" have become a rallying cry for his cause. He spent 145 days on hunger strike in 2018 to urge the Russian authorities to release all Ukrainians unfairly imprisoned in Russia, an act of profound courage that contributed to the European Parliament's awarding him the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Sentsov remains in a prison camp in Russia. It is the publisher's hope this book, published in collaboration with PEN Ukraine, contributes to his timely release.