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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 PeopleB. The Queen of Spades
Featuring the following short stories:
01 PIKOVAYA DAMA The Queen of Spades
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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 -
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.
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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.