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The TOP-10 of the most important Russian titles of the 2013 released today by The Weekend project of RIA Novosti feature FIVE titles represented by ELKOST agency:
- Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya
- Zwinger by Elena Kostioukovitch
- Auntie Mina (Teotia Motia) by Maya Kucherskaya
- Thief, Spy, and Murderer by Yuri Buida
- Return to Panjrud by Andrei Volos.
Rights sold: China - Nanhai Publishing, France - Gallimard, Germany - Neuer Malik, the Netherlands - De Arbeiderspers, Poland - Państ. Instytut Wydawniczy
In Antileader, Makanin is dealing seriously with the theme of violence. Its striking main character is othe pugnacious Kurenkov, a man driven by an inner demon of violence over which he appears to have little control. The novel is a psychological study of Kurenkov and of his wife who struggles to come to terms with her enigmatic husband.
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Many writers and researchers around the world now write prodigiously on the topic that engages all of us several times a day: food. And its history. It used to be that those of us interested in the history of food found the pickings pretty slim. Yuri Lotman and Jelena Pogosjan's High Society Dinners: Dining in Tsarist Russia deserves a wide readership among scholars and researchers and writers currently working on food- and culinary-related subjects, as well as curious general readers.
High Society Dinners, originally published posthumously in Russian in 1996 – Yuri Lotman having died in 1993 – technically consists of a number of menus for meals served at the opulent house of Petr Pavlovich Durnovo – Adjutant-General of the Tsar's Imperial Suite – during the period ranging from the spring of 1857 through 1858. Durnovo included diary-like comments...
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