Moscow, 26th of November, 2009.
Leonid Yuzefovich won the 2009 Big Book (Большая Книга) award today for Журавли и Карлики (Cranes and Pygmies) novel.
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Straight line, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1967)
Rights sold: Slovakia - Slovak Writer,
Straight Line is a debut Makanin´s novel published in 1965. In it, Makanin recounts a love story of a young Soviet scientist Vladimir, and his older colleague Emma.
Read moreGirls, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2002)
Rights sold: Finland - SILTALA, France – GALLIMARD, Germany – VOLK UND WELT, Hungary – MAGVETO, Israel – LIBROS, Japan - GUNZOSHA, Romania – HUMANITAS, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - PAIDEIA
The novel is divided into chapters that seem short stories, but form part of a single plot and feature the same characters:
1. A Gift from Above;
2. Unfamiliar Children;
3. The Foundling;
4. The second March, a certain Year;
5. The Chicken Pox;
6. The unfortunate, happy Kolyvanova
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