OKHO Publishing Company


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OKHO Publishing Company, L.L.C. is a publisher of contemporary literary works in Russian and English Languages. Works are typically published in Russian, although a limited number of English translations are available. This publishing company was established in 1999 in Evanston, IL, US.
The following titles have been published since the establishment of OKHO.

ЭМИГРАНТСКИЕ СКАЗКИ, т. 1 − EMIGRANT'S FAIRY TALES, v. 1. (Russian language) is the first collection of short stories by V. LeGeza. Most of these stories portray the life of people who emigrated from the former Soviet Union. You can find their fantasies and worries, dreams and fears in the soft and ironic characters and the situations of their daily lives. The collections consists of reprints of favorite LeGeza stories published between 1994-1998 in Russian language magazines and newspapers in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Canada and Israel, including the popular "My Grandma’s Chevy" and "Black September."
There are several layers of reality co-existing in LeGeza’s writing. Some stories are fantastic, some very down to earth, and some resemble a fairy tale. Most are a lively combination of all three visions of reality. In his book, irony, realism and romanticism peacefully live together. The writer has a colorful and creative language. His images are bright, detailed and funny.

Copyright © 1999, ОКHO Publishing, Fist Printing 1999

ЭМИГРАНТСКИЕ СКАЗКИ, т. 2 − EMIGRANT'S FAIRY TALES, v. 2 (Russian language) is the second collection of short stories by V. LeGeza. Most of the stories portray the life of people who emigrated from the former Soviet Union. Some stories are reprints of favorite LeGeza stories published in Russian language magazines and newspapers, including the popular "The Giant Crimson". There are also two plays in this new book and a short novel.
Some stories are fantastic, some realistic, some resemble fairy tales. Most are a combination of all three visions of reality imbued with irony, realism and romanticism. The writer has a kaleidoscopic and elegant language and images are bright and funny.

Copyright © 2001, ОКHO Publishing, Fist Printing 2001

TENDER TWIG by Edna Creekmore Carman and Kenneth Scott Carman

Editor: Paul Carman , Cover and illustrations: by Kathy Carman Henderson, (English language, 202 pp. soft cover)
Tender Twig is the third book published by Edna Creekmore Carman. Her previously published works include: A Day of Rest, an adventure of a family set in the Appalachians in the first half of the 20^th century, and Planet of Fire, a work of science fiction. Edna Creekmore Carman is a native of Pine Knot, Kentucky.
Kenneth Scott Carman is a retired professor of mathematics at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina Kansas.

Copyright © 1999, First Printing 2001

ХВОСТЫ И КРЫЛЬЯ − TAILS AND WINGS (Russian language) is the third collection of short stories by V. LeGeza. Some works are reprints of favorite LeGeza stories published in Russian language magazines and newspapers. There are two short novels in the book - the realistic "Restoration" and the fantastic "When I lived in Kiev..."

Copyright © 2002, ОКHO Publishing, Fist Printing 2002

АРЕНА − ARENA is a collection of contemporary stories by women- writers who emigrated from Russia. Authors are living now in various countries: USA, England, Spain, Israel, Australia, Germany, Norway, France and Finland. This is the first collection of its kind published in the USA, and perhaps in the world. Fiction. The book is published in Russian. Every moment of history is unique. The last decades are distinguished by a mass of Russian speakers from emigrating from the former Soviet Union and scattering all over the globe. They share a common past, language, culture and education, but their present and future are completely different.
Copyright © 2008 ОКHO Publishing L.L.C. First Printing 2005

АРЕНА-2 ARENA-2

Fiction. Russian Language. This book is the second collection of contemporary short stories, written by emigrant women writers, who are living in different countries: USA, Israel, Germany, France, Norway and Spain. The collection ARENA 2 consists of stories by 23 female writers from different countries of the world. They have re-settled into new lands, into another linguistic sphere and adapted to a foreign culture, but continue to write in Russian. All of these authors have experienced a sudden shift in their life trajectory, and this change of fate is reflected in their prose.
Copyright © 2007 ОКHO Publishing Co.L.L.C. First Printing 2007

ПОВЕСТИ КОШКИНА − TALES OF KOSHKIN. This is the fourth book by the author V. LeGeza, and was published in June of 2005. Iliusha Koshkin is a literary hero who, as the introduction states, has collected numerous “true” tales. We hope that they will interest and touch our readers. This volume includes new stories from the “Emigrants’ Fairytales” collection and the novel “Smoke of the White Apple Trees.”
Copyright © 2005, ОКHO Publishing, Hermitage Publishing. Fist Printing 2005

MY GRANDMA'S CHEVY by V. LeGeza (in English) was published by OKHO Publishing Company in the United States in 2006.
“My Grandma’s Chevy” by V. LeGeza is the first collection of English translations of the stories by this well-known emigrant author. It contains short stories from “Emigrants’ Fairy Tales.” V. LeGeza writes in Russian, but mostly about life of Eastern European emigrants in the United States.

Copyright © 2006, ОКHO Publishing, Fist Printing 2006

ЖАБА − ZHABA (THE TOAD) (Russian language. Fiction) “Emigrants’ Fairytales” is the collection of short stories by V. LeGeza. Some works are reprints of favorite LeGeza stories published in Russian language magazines and newspapers.
Every nation, large, small and even the tiniest has its own fairy tales. Even regions, cities and villages have their own stories. What about the Russian- speaking emigrants scattered across the United States of America? Are we any worse? We also need our own fairy tales.
Emigrant literature is typically associated with the words “nostalgia,” “exile,” “dissident.” There exists a certain mythology about emigration. But in the short stories of LeGeza, the reader encounters a surprising and extraordinary perspective on life in a foreign land, where new impression are colored by glimmers of magical childhood memories, imagination, curiosity and joie de vivre.

Copyright © 2008, ОКHO Publishing, Fist Printing 2008, “Edita”, Germany

АРЕНА-3 − ARENA-3

It’s a collection of contemporary short stories by women- writers from various countries: USA, Canada, Israel, Germany, Norway, France and other. This is the third collection of its kind published in the USA. Fiction. The book is published in Russian language. Fiction.
Copyright © 2009, ОКHO Publishing, Fist Printing 2009

ЭММА2000 − EMMA2000
In the year 2009 the publishing house “Chaika”, U.S.A. will publish the new novella of V. Legeza, the author of popular short stories.

The book Emma2000 echoes the themes of the novel by the well-known British author, Jane Austin. This is a story of a self-confident young woman. She, like the hero of the 19^th century novel “Emma”, possesses talent, beauty, high social status and believes that she can manipulate events and people. She thinks that she knows how the world works. This clever and interesting plot contains unexpected twists, a compelling love story, vivid characters who find themselves in complex and unforeseen situations and keep the reader in suspense until the last page of the novella.