ELKOST International literary agency - Elena Kostioukovitch presents a Spanish edition of Why Italians... in Bilbao

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On December 14th, 2009, Elena Kostioukovitch presents a Spanish edition of her 'Why Italians Love to Talk about Food' volume published by Tusquets Editores, Spain, as 'Por qué a los Italianos les gusta hablar de comida' at 'ALGUSTO. Saber y Sabor' International Food&Cuisine Show.

Jointly organised by Slow Food International and the Slow Food convivia in Spain, and a major event in the food and cuisine calendar, the second edition of ALGUSTO, Saber y Sabor takes place between December 11th and 14th at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC). ALGUSTO, Saber y Sabor (Knowledge and Flavour) was born out of an agreement reached between BEC and SLOW FOOD. The aim behind the show, the only one of its kind in Spain, is to promote the philosophy that the Slow Food movement has been championing all over the world for more than 20 years now. Inspired by Turin’s Salone del Gusto, ALGUSTO opens its doors to the general public and is a reference point in the artisan food and cuisine industry.

Presentation of Elena Kostioukovitch's 'Why Italians Love to Talk about Food' will take place in the Conference Hall 2 of Bilbao Exhibition Centre on December 14th, 2009, at 11.00.

Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness, edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2013, NF)

Rights sol to: Russia - AST, Poland - ŚWIAT KSIĄŻKI

In 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya launched the major documentary project “After the Great Victory,” for which people who were children between 1945 and 1953 were invited to send in their childhood memories. Work that Ulitskaya selected was published by AST in 2013 in the collection “Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness” with Ulitskaya’s preface and comments.

This book is yet another project in social portraiture by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Its goal is to restore historical memory in Russia, a country burned many times over and still being burned. Ulitskaya chooses the relatively rare genre of folk memoir – the stories and witness accounts of “little people”. Written quite subjectively and without artifice, together they create the magical effect of compound vision, where space and the objects in it are simultaneously seen from all sides. Besides these mini-memoirs, the book also contains eighteen forewords...

THE REHEARSALS, a novel by Vladimir Sharov

Rights sold: France - Solin-Actes Sud, World English - DEDALUS, Russia - ARSIS BOOKS, AST, Serbia - UTOPIA

In this novel, Sharov’s main character is an up-and-coming medieval historian, who is given old manuscripts by a mysterious figure. In these manuscripts, he uncovers the diaries of a seventeenth century Frenchman, Jacques de Sertan, who is writing a play about the life of Christ. The novel then follows a small Russian community that acts out Sertan’s work. The community is followed from the Old Believer schism of 1666 to the beginning of the Soviet period and the horrors of the Gulag, where the small community, once blooming with life, turns into a labor camp. In Russia the novel was praised for its in-depth look at the repercussions of communism on a rural community.

The novel was also well received by readers and has sold over 30,000 copies in Russia alone.

A stunning reflection...

Elena Kostioukovitch presents a Spanish edition of Why Italians... in Bilbao - December 14, 2009

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Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness, edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2013, NF)

THE REHEARSALS, a novel by Vladimir Sharov