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NEW RELEASE: Kyiv. A Fortress Over the Abyss by Elena Kostioukovitch
Marina Vishnevetskaya wins the 2024 Vitruvio-Le Muse Award
Lyudmila Ulitskaya awarded the Günter Grass-Preis 2023 for her life's work
Lyudmila Ulitskaya receives the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize 2023
MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Ludmila Ulitskaya named a winner of the 2022 Formentor Prize
2022 – The Year of Józef Mackiewicz
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Norway
NEW RELEASE: Ulitskaya's The Big Green Tent in Japan
NEW RELEASE: OST in English
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina´s Train to Samarkand in Romania
MEMORIAL International awarded the 2021 JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
RIP Marietta Chudakova (1937-2021)
Yakhina's novel named the best translated novel of the 2021 in France
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina's Children of the Volga in Serbia

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  • Poor Relatives and The Queen of Spades, two collections of short stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya

    Rights sold: Bulgaria - Short Stories 1 - COLIBRI , Czech Republic - Short Stories 1 - HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGIES, Finland - SILTALA, France - Short  Stories 1 - GALLIMARD, France - Short Stories 2 - GALLIMARD, France -  Short Stories 3 - GALLIMARD, Germany - Short Stories 1 - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), Germany - Short Stories 2 - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), Great Britain - Short Stories - HARVILL, Israel - Short Stories - AM OVED, Israel - Short Stories - LIBROS, Italy - Short Stories - LUCIANA TUFFANI, Romania  - Short Stories 2 - S.C HUMANITAS S.A, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Slovakia - Short Stories - VYDAVATELSTVO SSS, Turkey - Short Stories - AD KITAPCILIK

    We offer two "ideal" collections of Ulitskaya's short stories:

    A. Poor Relatives

    Featuring the following short stories:

    01 SCHASTLIVYE The Fortunate Ones
    02 BEDNYE RODSTVENNIKI Poor Relatives
    03 BRON'KA Bron'ka
    04 GENELE SUMOCHNIZA Genele the Handbag Lady
    05 DOCH' BUCHARY The Daughter of Bokhara
    06 DOLGAYA DOLGAYA ZHIZN' A Long, Long Life
    07 LYALIN DOM Olga’s Home
    08 GULYA Gulya
    09 NAROD IZBRANNYJ The Chosen People

     

    B. The Queen of Spades

    Featuring the following short stories:

    01 PIKOVAYA DAMA The Queen of Spades
    02 ZVER The Beast
    03 ORLOVY SOKOLOVY The Orlovs Sokolovs
    04 ZY-UY-UY-URICH Zurich
    05 GOLUBCHIK Angel
    06 ZHENZCHINY RUSSKICH SELENIJ Dauntless Women of the Russian Steppe
    07 VTOROE LICO Second Person
    08 PERLOVYJ SUP Scotch Broth

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  • The Witness, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1993)

    Rights sold: Germany - Volk und Welt, Italy - Isbn Edizioni, Spain - Lumen, Poland - Claroscuro

    "This novel is intensely passionate, and rich in fresh images and patterns..." (Silvia Bambino, The Wanity Fair)

    "The Witness" is the first-person narrative of the life story of a simple human being, a barber Fedor Petrovich, whose life's most intense and dramatic period was the incorporation of his native Bessarabia into the Soviet Union in 1940, accompanied by coercion from the new command structure, which affected social relationships and caused enormous suffering due to famine brought on both by prolonged drought and by mistakes in official planning and preparation.

    In the speck on the map called Kotlovina, the entire historical drama, starting with the so-called Soviet liberation from Romanian rule, was played out to its horrible end with very few survivors to live and tell about it.

    The novel's success is based on the vivid and laconic presentation of its characters. "The Witness" projects the speech pattern of a simple, uneducated man. This style makes use of down-to-earth expressions, is unafraid of repetitions, takes notice of the simple things in life (of a person's outward appearance, of smells and fragrances, all very appropriate to a barber's profession), is not averse to rudeness in language and behavior, and above all is a stranger to all dissembling and pretense. The events told are viewed through the prism of recollection, which softens their horrible contours somewhat and which allows the theme of brotherhood to emerge and feelings of hatred to dissolve. Honesty and lack of pretense are the author's hallmark, and it is these features which characterize his artistic expression.

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