andropov’s cuckoo

andropov’s cuckoo

English Books Translated into Russian

Published by Chalita Majang on 11 March 2023

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English Books Translated into Russian

Owen Jones – Welsh Author

As the webmaster of the Megan Publishing Services blog, I have noticed a recent up-swing in interest for English Books Translated into Russian on our blog. This makes sense because we have a collection of six English books translated into Russian for sale at the moment.

Books Translated into Russian

Owen Jones’ books have always been popular. That’s why people have translated them into forty languages. However, this sudden surge in interest is different. The interest in Owen Jones ‘ English books translated into Russian Is being driven by young Russian-speaking women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four years of age. As a Thai woman, who also falls into that age group, I welcome you to our blog with all my heart.

If you are one of our new readers, I would love to hear from you 🙂

English Books Translated into Russian

We currently have six English books translated into Russian, but since the author studied Russian in his youth, he has a special interest in having all fifty of his novels translated into Russian. A Russian translator is working on a seventh novel on as I write. Anyway, I will give you a brief summary of the six novels we have, and encourage you to follow the link below to read more on the page of translations in Russian.

The Disallowed – «Запрещенные»

An old Thai goatherd finds that he is feeling very weak, so he goes to the local shaman. She tells him that he has no blood, and so begins the humorous story of the founding of the first Vampire Republic. It’s a kind of funny vampire story.

The Psychic Megan Series – «Сериал про экстрасенса Меган»

This series is about the psychic development of a young teenage girl with the name of Megan. She has psychic powers, but doesn’t know how to use them. Megan is encouraged and instructed by her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha, and a huge ghost Siberian Tiger called Grrr. Her parents, on the other hand, are of no use in this matter at all.

Behind The Smile – «Что скрывает улыбка?»

This is the story of Lek, a bar Girl in Pattaya. She has had to work in a bar called Daddy’s Hobby, in the sex tourism industry for ten years to pay off family debts, but now she is free. She is in turmoil. Can she ever fit back into normal society again? How will her conservative fellow villagers treat her knowing what she has been and done? Not only that, but could she ever live with those narrow-minded people again?

Andropov’s Cuckoo – «Андропова Кукушка»

Natasha, a naïve, young, patriotic, avid socialist, hatches a plan to help her country, and the working-class of the world. Her mother, a high Party official, passes the idea up the hierarchy until Yuri Andropov himself hears of it. The Politburo sanctions the ruse. However, Natasha, falls in love for the very first time, and everything starts to go horribly wrong for her.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok- «Тигровая Лилия из Бангкока»

Lily is abused as a child, but seems to be able to handle it. However, things change when she moves to Bangkok to study, and eventually Lily The Avenger emerges. Bangkok is frightened, The Avenger is debated in Parliament and on TV, but only men are being killed.

The hunt is on.

Dead Centre – «Мёртвый центр»

A gang of renegade ex-SAS Special Forces sets up a business to help their less well-off colleagues. However, it fall foul of the law. They find themselves hunted by the police forces of seven countries, a group of Chinese government computer experts, and even their old colleagues in the SAS. Time is running out for them to get to safety, but who would have them?

Contact me

Well, that’s it for now. If there is anything that I or Owen Jones can do, please, contact us using the box below.

Best wishes,

Chalita.

Webmaster: Megan Publishing Services.

Книги на русском языке – English Books Translated into Russian

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Andropov’s Cuckoo – Spies in the Cold War

Published by Owen Jones on 1 February 2019

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Andropovs Cuckoo - audiobook
Andropovs Cuckoo – audiobook

A true story of spies in the Cold War of the Seventies…

Andropov’s Cuckoo

A Tale of Love, Intrigue and the KGB

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by: Ian Miller

A dying man recounts the story of the most amazing person he has ever met: a brilliant Soviet linguist, whom he knew as Youriko. It is a tale of love, daring-do, spies, and danger set in Japan, Germany, Turkey, the USA, Canada, and the UK, but mostly in the Soviet Union of the 70s.

Two girls, born thousands of miles apart in Kazakhstan and Japan just after World War II, meet and are like peas in a pod. They also get on like sisters and keep n touch for the rest of their lives.
However, one wants to help her battle-scarred country and the other wants to leave hers for the West. They dream up a daring, dangerous plan to achieve both goals, which Andropov, the chief of the Soviet KGB, is told about. He dubs it “Operation Youriko”, and it is set in motion, but does it have even the remotest chance of success?

Andropov’s Cuckoo is based on a true story related to the author by one of the protagonists.

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Andropov’s Cuckoo – Review

Published by Owen Jones on 27 September 2018

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Andropov's Cuckoo Review

Andropov’s Cuckoo Review

Andropov’s Cuckoo

A Story of Love, Intrigue and The KGB

by Owen Jones

Review by Barry Boy

Andropov’s Cuckoo is in the genre of Thriller, but straddles the sub-genres of Love (Romance) and Espionage. It is written in the third-person singular and set in the Soviet Union, and several other Eastern and Western countries, in the thirty-odd years after the Second World War.

We meet the main character, Natasha, quite late in the novel – the fourth chapter – although we hear of her under another name – Youriko – before that.

Natasha was born in Kazakhstan and happened to look Japanese, which is the basis of the plot. However, Natasha was an idealistic, naive young woman who wanted to help Socialism better the condition of the Working Class around the world, and so was vulnerable to abuse by the Soviet hierarchy, which is where Yuri Andropov makes his appearance as the fearsome head of the dreaded KGB.

At first, things went well for Operation Youriko, but Natasha gradually lost her enthusiasm and wanted out, which could not go unpunished. Shortly after this point, she meets a British student and falls in love for the first time in her life, and the race is on to get out of the USSR and into the UK.

We are told that Andropov’s Cuckoo is based on a true story that happened to the author himself, but that cannot be corroborated. The realism and passion in the story suggests that that might be true.

I enjoyed Andropov’s Cuckoo by Owen Jones and give it full marks. It is thrilling, pacey and realistic. Your heart will go out to Natasha, I promise you. It is a love story on several levels filial love, patriotism, idealism and romance.

Andropov’s Cuckoo by Owen Jones is available from all major retailers both on and off line, although it is probably quicker to order it from Amazon as a paperback, ebook or (free) audiobook here:

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Afterword to Andropov’s Cuckoo

Published by Owen Jones on 21 July 2016
Andropov's Cuckoo - a novel
Afterword to  Andropov’s Cuckoo

Afterword to Andropov’s Cuckoo.

I, the author of Andropov’s Cuckoo, was studying Russian in Leningrad in 1973. One day, I met an Asian lady and her friends. Her name was Youriko and we became instant friends, exactly as I describe it in the book. Everything in the chapters concerning that year in Leningrad is true. The Bibles, the letter from Viktor Feinberg, and the meeting with his son and the imposter are all true.

Afterword to Andropov’s Cuckoo

There were other things too, which I did not put in this story. For example, the girl who took me home to meet her father. He gave me two icons, which he had ‘liberated’ from a church as the Red Army chased the Germans out of the country.  He had been told to burn all religious artefacts, but he had rescued these two. He wwanted them to go to a ‘good home’. Smuggling them out was scary, and I still have them.

Back to reality

When stay was over, I returned to Portsmouth University, and told people Youriko’s story as it is in this book. However, my girlfriend heard about it and one morning I awoke to the smell of burning paper. My girlfriend had set fire to Youriko’s pictures, address etc in the sink.

Therefore, I never saw her again. However, I had told Youriko that I would be back the next summer for another term in Russia. What I did not know was that we would be in Kalinin not Leningrad. I did not see her that second year, or ever again. However, the barman in the Evropayskaya Hotel did tell me that a Soviet woman had phoned several times. Apparently, she was asking for a man with my name.

Everything up to Youriko seeing me off is true, if I was there, or what she told me if I wasn’t. Therefore, her looking for me in the second year is dramatised. Her move to the Crimea, and her escape to the West are just wishful thinking.

I think about Youriko every week of my life and have done since I was nineteen. Youriko is seventy-one now, if she is still alive.

I have been wanting to write Youriko’s story for forty-odd years, so I hope that you enjoyed it.

Regards,

Owen

I added this Afterword to Andropov’s Cuckoo on the advice of a good friend, because, after reading the book, he was uncertain whether parts of it were actually true of not. I hope that this addition to the novel makes things clearer.

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A Milestone

Published by Owen Jones on 16 November 2015

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A Milestone

Today was a pretty good day, a milestone, you could say. I finished my NaNoWriMo 2015 entry, A Night in Annwn, a fortnight ahead of schedule and I finished editing the sixth volume, The Dream, in the Lek series Behind The Smile. I also have a novel of eighty thousand words called Andropov’s Cuckoo which is complete and edited, but as yet unpublished.

Therefore, if I wanted to, and I might, I could publish three novels this evening with a combined count of 240,000 words. That would be a milestone for me for sure.

My problem is that I always find this period after finishing a book depressing. Perhaps I should throw a party. I live in a small rice-growing village in northern Thailand. The ground is very fertile, but it still takes three to four months to grow and harvest a crop of rice. When the farmer has weighed his crop into the co-op, he will invite friends to a small party at his house. Since everyone here is a farmer, they all understand that such a day is a milestone marking the end of a lot of work and a pocket full of money.

However, when I finish a book it means nothing to anyone around here, not even my wife, although she has seen me finish 140 before. She was in my office this morning when I said ‘Finished’. ‘You said last night that you would have difficulties with this one’, she reminded me. ‘Yes, but the answer came to me in my sleep’, I replied. ‘Oh, that’s lucky…’ was all she could manage.

No ‘Well done!’ or ‘Congratulations!’ like the farmers get. Just, ‘Oh, that’s lucky…’

I know the problem, I don’t make a big deal out of finishing a book, my wife and friends assume that it is easy, and so not worthy of praise. However, you writers, and other artists out there, will know what it takes to spend weeks or months on a project, only to have it come abruptly to an end and be wondering what the Hell you’re going to do next.

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All the best.

Owen

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