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Nathan is an unusual teenager, he does not fit into any system - neither the system of ordinary people, nor the system of magicians, to which his entire family belongs. After all, the blood of his mother, a White witch, and the blood of his father, the most cruel Black wizard, are mixed in him. He is a CB, he is a Half-Code, the one who is subjected to brutal torture, imprisonment in a cage, and persecution by the Council of White Wizards. But he must break free and escape to find his father and receive the three gifts. Otherwise, he will die a terrible death. However, the Trappers are tracking his every move, and he wonders if he can trust anyone - his brother, his sister, or at least the girl Nathan loves with all his heart...

"Half Evil" by Sally Green has already caught the ears of publishers around the world before its official publication. The project of this book was presented a year ago at the Bologna Book Fair (Italy). And since then, there has been a real publishing battle for the right to publish the novel in their country. The world rights to all three parts of the saga (two of which have not yet been written) were acquired by Puffin U.K. (a division of the British publishing house Penguin). Ukrainian readers will see the book on the same day as readers from all over the world. The rights to publish The Half-Evil in Ukraine were acquired by Staryi Lev Publishing House. The book was translated from English by Viktor Morozov."

"Half Evil" is Sally Green's literary debut. "Selling the rights to publish a first novel in so many territories before its publication is unprecedented," said Ken Wright, Vice President and Publisher of Viking (Penguin Group (USA)). "Ukraine has never joined a publishing project of this scale before the book's publication in the world."

The book has every chance of becoming the biggest bestseller this year. It is not for nothing that critics and literary agents from all over the world predict the author to be as popular as J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer and Suzanne Collins. There is already an agreement on the film adaptation of Half-Blooded by Fox 2000, which has beaten several other well-known film studios. The film will be produced by Karen Roselfeld, whose last project was Twilight."

The novel Half-Blooded is set in a modern world inhabited by black and white witches and wizards. They are separated by hatred for each other, and united only by fear of the teenager Nathan, who is a descendant of both sides. This is a striking first-person account of what it's like to constantly feel like an outsider, hunted by everyone, and to strive to survive above all else. "Half Evil will be interesting for both teenagers and adult readers. "This text captivated me from the first minutes of reading," Ken Wright admits. - "I immediately understood who Nathan was. The novel plays with our established ideas of good and evil and turns them upside down. The author has managed to perfectly convey the feeling that the world is grey outside the window."

"The most important thing for all of us is that the Ukrainian translation of this book will be published on the same day as the English-language original, unlike, say, J.K. Rowling's Potteriana, when translators from all over the world had the opportunity to start translating only after the work was published in English," says translator Viktor Morozov. - "Back then, I tried to get ahead of the Russians in the hope that the young wizard Harry Potter would help Ukrainise children from the east and south of Ukraine, and now I have a new idea-fix: to Ukrainise children in England. Scotland, Wales... no need to waste time on trinkets - Ukrainianise children all over the world!"

"In these tense days for Ukraine, when the brightest and darkest sides of human nature are so clearly manifested, the only thing that took me away from the incessant monitoring of the news was reading Sally Green's book Half Evil in manuscript," says Mariana Savka, writer and editor-in-chief of the Old Lion Publishing House. - "Two thoughts constantly haunted me while reading. The first was that it was a kind of déjà vu - a cage in which a guy who had done nothing wrong was kept, mocked, beaten, persecuted, and subjected to unheard-of cruelty by formally "white" people, those who were supposed to be fair and kind-hearted. Secondly, this is very high quality literature, the novel keeps you in suspense until the last page, and, what is very important, the Ukrainian translation by Viktor Morozov, in my opinion, is impeccable. The descendant of a white witch and a black sorcerer has no life in the middle, because you cannot be both white and black at the same time. But who knows what black is and what white is?"