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The Game of Jart was first published in 2022 in two formats: a text-only edition and a lavishly illustrated hardback. The illustrated version featured more than twenty full-page artworks and some fifty ornamental drolleries by Aleks Klepnev, a renowned graphic artist whose work on the book has been shown in three solo exhibitions devoted entirely to The Game of Jart.

Building on this tradition, one of the novellas (The Last Sun) is now being adapted into a graphic novel by Lay-lo, a hugely popular comic artist with over 100,000 followers on Webtoon. The adaptation is published biweekly on WEBTOON and Tapas.io, where it has already attracted thousands of readers and growing engagement.

Reviews

Now this is genuinely good. An excellent collection of three novellas.

Perhaps it’s partly my own weakness—I love books rich in allusions to world culture. Here the author navigates that vast sea like a native, weaving into his tales a dazzling variety of references, always apt, never forced.

Writers of such erudition often grow ponderous, but the chief virtue of this book is the opposite: lightness and natural flow. The prose isn’t laid brick by brick; it runs like a stream, sparkling and rumbling over its shallows. Parables—yes, but not only. Fantasy—perhaps, but even that label is too narrow. These are fairy tales at their best: magical stories for everyone, from the young pioneer to the pensioner.

The aesthetics of the Great Steppe and Tengri’s high skies blend with many-tailed fox spirits, only to twist mid-leap into the imagery of the Crusades, Avalon, and Arthurian chivalry.

Very, very good indeed.

Vadim Nesterov, writer

Author Biography

Gloria Mu, a pseudonym for a Ukraine-born writer, primarily crafts her tales in Russian. Born in 1973, she boasts art degrees from the Kharkiv State School of Art and the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Performing Arts. Between 2009 and 2014, Gloria’s livejournal blog offered glimpses into her multifaceted career journey — spanning roles as an illustrator, designer, papetier, pyrotechnic, actress, and translator.

Her debut autofictional novel cought attention of Boris Akunin, one of most prominent contemporary novelist who invited her to co-author one of his books in 2012.

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