Noir is delighted to have secured the rights to Renata Serelyte's wonderful and dark novel, 'Vardas tamsoje' (A Name in the Dark). Vardas tamsoje was a Lithuanian Book of the Year shortlisted novel and was made into a film.
Deep Baltic Features interview with Laura Sintija Cerniauskaite
“COMFORTABLE DOESN’T INTEREST ME”: LAURA SINTIJA ČERNIAUSKAITĖ
Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė’s novel, Breathing into Marble, published by Noir Press, December 2016 is a dark, compelling tale of a family torn apart and a woman driven to the edge of madness.
Isabel, the protagonist of Černiauskaitė’s novel, is an artist married to a teacher. They have a son, Gailius, who suffers from epilepsy. Isabel is driven to adopt a young orphan, Ilya, and it is his malevolent, troubled spirit which sets off the series of events that leads to murder.
The novel tackles many issues including childhood sexual abuse, suicide, and the problems with the adoption process in Lithuania.
At the heart of the novel is the relationship between Isabel and the young child Ilya. It is a moving, dark and sometimes twisted relationship.
Baltic Times Covers Noir Press
'Some people, with no ancestral roots in Lithuania, just happen to fall in love with the country and furthermore: turn into its envoys. Stephan Collishaw, a British novelist and editor at Noir Press, aims to wade into nearly-charted waters: to introduce the most exciting new Lithuanian writing to an English-reading audience. “Currently Lithuanian literature is unexplored territory for the English reader. It is terra incognita,” he told The Baltic Times. The breakthrough could be just around the corner with Stephan preparing to introduce British readers the Lithuanian novel “Breathing into Marble” (Kvepavimas i marmura) by an aspiring Lithuanian novelist, Laura Sintija Cerniauskaite. The translation is due out on Dec. 6.'
Noir Press Launch
We're looking forward to the launch of our first novel, Breathing into Marble by Laura Sintija Cerniauskaite. The novel is a wonderful, dark and poetic book and we're really excited to get it out there for people to read.
The launch will be at Nottingham Writers' Studio on December 6th.
If you are keen to go, find more details here.