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Where Did The Mountain Go by Stanislav Vostokov
,Rights sold: Russia - Mellik-Pashaev
The White Ravens catalogue 2021
How does a construction industry affects our planet? It definitely took peace and quiet away from this mountain who decided to escape from its original location, and went travelling all over the Earth in search for a place where she can just be. But the fact that entire surface of Earth is under development by man left her with the only option to explore other planets where mankind hasn’t set his foot upon yet.
This beautiful picture book will make a fantastic fisrt reading about environmental and ecology issues.
Original language: Russian.
52 full-colour illustrations by Maksim Pokaliev.
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BEFORE AND DURING, a novel by Vladimir Sharov
Rights sold: China - PEKING UNIVERSITY PRESS, France - PHÉBUS, Italy - VOLAND, Serbia - UTOPIA, World English - DEDALUS
Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. The novel invokes real historical events and people (Tolstoy, Madame de Staël, Saint John of Kronstadt, Alexander Scriabin, and Stalin, among others), swirling them into a phantasmagoric alternative chronology. Stories germinate within other stories, unfolding in astonishing variations.
We meet Leo Tolstoy’s twin brother, eaten by the great writer in his mother’s womb, only to be born as Tolstoy’s ‘son’; the philosopher-hermit Nikolai Fyodorov, who believed that the common task of humanity was the physical resurrection of their ancestors; a self-replicating Madame de Staël who, during her second life, is carried through plague-ridden Russia in a glass palanquin and becomes Fyodorov’s lover; and the composer Alexander Scriabin, who preaches to Lenin on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Out of these intoxicating, darkly comic fantasies – all described in a serious, steady voice – Sharov seeks to retrieve the hidden connections and hidden strivings of the Russian past, its wild, lustful quest for justice, salvation and God.
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