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      • Victorina Press

        Victorina Press was created by  Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, a Chilean-British writer and academic. We are therefore rooted strongly in Chilean and British cultures. Our mission is to publish inspirational, quality books in the spirit of bibliodiversity, a concept developed by a group of Chilean independent publishers — Editores independientes de Chile. It encourages the celebration of a variety of voices from all over the world and prevents our publishing world from being a monolithic culture. Everyone has a story to tell. We want to be the ones to tell it. Consuelo’s Latin American roots play a huge role in our publishing today, with many of our books being translated into Spanish as stand alone or bilingual publications. Publishing everything from hard-hitting, inspirational memoirs, thrilling YA dystopias, gripping historical fiction, fun early learning, colourful, exciting children's books, literature for the classic shelf, and poetry to entice you, there is one book for every genre!

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        The Small Cherry Village

        by Cao Wenxuan

        The Small Cherry Village is Cao Wenxuan's 2020 feature-length novel about two rural children who struggle to find their lost grandmother.

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        Literature & Literary Studies

        A Village of One’s Own

        by Liu Liangcheng

        The book provides a poetic portrayal of plants, animals, wind, nights, moon and dream in a village from the angle of 'an idle person', who only regards sunrise and sunset, the blooming and fading of flowers as big things and feels the dignity of everything in the world in a free and natural living situation, instead of being busy with spring sowing and autumn harvest. All the gazing and touching of everything in the world as well as dialogue with them fill the book with vitality and spirituality. It becomes a modern classic allowing people to get rid of the noisy social life and return to natural living situation. The prose collection A Village of One’s Own has great popularity all over China. It has been perceived as a must-read for those who want to experience the culture and tradition of Chinese rural scenery and life. From the perspective of an “idle person”, the author poetically depicts the woods, animals, winds, nights, moonlight, and dreams in this village. This “idle man” subordinates sowing and harvesting to observing the sun’s rising and setting, as well as the flowers’ booming and withering.He indulges himself in a natural way of living to feel the dignity of the universe. He lies down on the broad fields, listening attentively to the hum of insects, and smiles at a flower in this desolate place. He finds out the donkeys that push carts and work for human beings are sophisticated intellectuals, and the rats that are busy collecting foods may also joyously celebrate their gains...All these stares into, touches upon, and conversations with every living thing on the earth have breathed life into the book, hence rid this contemporary classic of chaos of the secular society, but let it embrace a natural way to survive and thrive.

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        Swallows Singing Brightly

        by Wang Yuewen, Zhao Ronghao

        The Swallows Singing Brightly, written by the famous best-seller Wang Yuewen, is about a series of historical changes in the development of Manshui Village, and the renewed vitality and vigor of the village in the concept of "comprehensively push forward rural vitalization and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas". Manshui Village has gone from old wooden houses and narrow stone paths to fashionable houses and flat concrete and asphalt roads; from cutting firewood in the mountains at dawn to using natural gas stoves in every families; from a little few swallows flying on the fields to swallows flying all over the sky and singing brightly. Nowadays, Manshui Village has become a National Forest Village, every family has become rich through hard work.

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        Children's & YA
        February 2021

        Ridi Regrets His Mistakes

        by Ismaël Ouédraogo / Akira Junior

        Young Ridi obtained good results in school. As a reward, his parents offered him an invitation to spend  the holiday in the village with his grandma. The days spent in such a rural area were so wonderful, until several events unfolded!

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        Children's & YA
        2020

        Andolo

        The Talented Albino

        by Nsah Mala

        Mbesa village witnesses a peculiar birth; that of a boy with a special skin color. He becomes a curiosity for everyone. Nevertheless, his difference will not be a handicap for him… on the contrary! Andolo is a very talented man and knows how to prove it.

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        Biography & True Stories
        November 2019

        Diary of a Leader in Poverty Reduction

        by Zhu Mingxing

        The diary was written by Zhu Mingxing, the leader of the village work in Dahua Village (Taohua,Taojiang). He recorded some typical angles of his work when he was in the village,finally comes out the diary for poverty alleviation.

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        June 2020

        The Complete Works of Gu Yuan

        by Shang Hui, Gu'an Village

        Gu Yuan (1919-1996), an outstanding people's artist, art educator, and former dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is a singer-like artist of the working people. This complete collection will combine the needs of appraisal and research. Since Gu Yuan began his artistic work in the late 1930s, it will compile representative works and life photos from various stages and categories of Gu Yuan and display it in an all-round way. Mr.'s artistic life is extremely academic. The complete collection is divided into 5 volumes: engraving volume (before 1949), engraving volume (after 1949), watercolor volume I, watercolor volume II, sketches, sketches, Chinese paintings and manuscripts, and other volumes.

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        Children's & YA

        Jin Sisters in Southern Village

        by Guo Jiangyan

        This is a story of children's growth, which describes the children finally walk out of the closed environment and set foot on broad road after they experience strong inner struggle. The heroines Jin Xiaoxi and Jin Xiaoliu live in a remote village in the mountains and they lead a simple, calm and boring life. The outside world doesn’t open to her until Xiaoxi comes across a city girl Tulan who escapes from kidnapping. She and other villagers help Tulan free from villains and gain freedom. The heroines also open their innocent and naive world and step forward to the wonderful future world. This novel has a strong power to make readers feel warm and touching.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2020

        Rethinking settlement and integration

        by Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

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        Geography & the Environment
        June 2018

        Documentary Work of Ecological Protection in Jicheng Village

        by Liu Zihua

        In 1998, Jicheng village in Yueyang became the first one that implemented "Pushing Over Embankments" system, a national priority project for ecological protection. Till today, the system has been put into practice for over 20 years. In this book, the author who cares about the local environment and has experienced this project tells us various touching stories in this process. Many stirring scenes and stories are vividly narrated to show the key role of this system in ecological protection project for Yangtze river basin.

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        November 2017

        The Secret of La Rosa

        by Donald Willerton

        It was just a short cross-country ski outing over the Christmas break for Mogi Franklin and his sister, Jennifer–until they find themselves suddenly caught in a vicious blizzard. Near collapse, they ski into a mysterious valley with an ancient hacienda, a busy Spanish family, and a village with no electricity, no plumbing, no cars, no phones, and definitely no Walmart.A vacation that began a few days earlier helping his Granddad clean and decorate for a huge family celebration had now become a mind-boggling mystery. And young Mogi's anguish trying to come to terms with his grandmother's death from cancer the previous Christmas turns to fear and danger when he is accused of stealing a religious icon the town prizes above all others–and which holds the key to solving an ancient legend of missing Spanish gold.It's the latest book of the exciting Mogi Franklin Mysteries–shadowy figures, secret societies, a town like no other. Is this all reality or illusion? Mogi must find the answers, even as he struggles with the memory of his grandmother's death and the mysteries of faith it brought him which he now must answer as well.

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        January 2023

        Wigglers: The Survival of Small-town People in the City

        by Yi Hong, a reporter for Hunan Broadcasting System, has devoted himself to TV programs and copywriting related to art all year round. He has published the novels Endless Love to Changsha and Love is a Ghost, and compiled the books Bright Future and Absolute Loyalty. He won the first “Taofen Award for New Talents” in China.

        It is a realistic novel with unique characteristics in content and text. The novel describes the different lives of the hero and Brother Liaoliao, his fellow villager and classmate, two young people who came from a small town. The town and the city work as mirror images of each other, as was the case with the two main characters. They share common childhood and juvenile memories, which are the source of life that has been turned into fantasy stories over time. As friends, they went out to college together and lived in the city after graduation. One got promoted, while the other spent time in a mediocre position...

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        Rethinking untouchability

        The political thought of B. R. Ambedkar

        by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza

        This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar's role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar's main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India's political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.

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        Children's & YA

        Hamster Humboldt. Small and Steady Wins the Race

        by Meike Betz

        This intrepid hamster plunges into every adventure with full cheeks! Humboldt is a detective, adventurer and – a hamster. His size doesn’t stop him from helping the people of Villy Village out of all sorts of fixes whenever he’s not helping his owner Babs and her daughter Elli in the post office. No problem is too big for him! Only his owner’s money worries leave him flummoxed. But then Babs and Elli win the lottery and are over the moon – until they receive an anonymous postcard. Humboldt’s life is suddenly in dire straits because the unknown blackmailer wants Babs and Elli’s lottery ticket – or he’s going to hurt Humboldt. When the police refuses to get to the bottom of the case, Humboldt decides to take matters into his own paws. He’s keen to put a stop to this lottery villain’s antics! HAMSTER HUMBOLDT. SMALL AND STEADY WINS THE RACE is a detective and adventure story full of animal-entertainment for girls and boys aged 8+.

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        March 1979

        Papa Hamlet

        by Arno Holz, Johannes Schlaf, Theo Meyer, Theo Meyer

        Der »große, unübertroffene Hamlet«, ein Schmierenschauspieler, ein Komödiant, der mit seiner schwindsüchtigen Frau in Schmutz, Hunger und Kälte ein erbärmliches Leben in der Dachstube fristet, geht zugrunde am Alkohol, nachdem er in der Wut sein schreiendes Kind erwürgt hat. In den drei Erzählungen, die sich hinter dem Titel Papa Hamlet verbergen, ist es vor allem der neue Stoff- und Themenbereich, der 1889 bei Erscheinen des Bandes Aufsehen erregte: das soziale Elend des großstädtischen Industrieproletariats und die triste Schattenwelt von Armut und Laster, erzählt mit einer sprachlichen Sensibilität, die fähig war, alle Details der Alltagswelt aufzunehmen.

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        August 2021

        Water Town

        by Can Xue

        Can Xue's latest novel "Water Town" is an artistic display of the complex history of human experience. What kind of survival is free survival? These thousand years of questioning have become extremely urgent in this era. The individual lives created by the writer are squeezed like a magic one by one, forcing themselves, fighting hard amidst the revelation of a grand and dim allegory background, and unanimously following the vague call to the magic after a long journey. Water town. In this wonderland, people will realize their dreams as long as they act. Everything is possible, the power of life rushes to the peak of ideals in the carnival... and the earth responds to the heartbeat in calmness. The free survival of man is a performance art activity, which is also the ancient essential impulse of man. "Water Village" is not only a display of artistic life, but also an advocacy of this kind of life.

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