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Girls, 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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LEAD ME, BLIND MAN, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)
Rights sold: Russia – Culturnaya Revolutzia, AST
A biopic novel dedicated to the famous Russian playwright Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903). A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. Based on his personal experiences, Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote a trilogy of satirical plays about the prevalence of bribery and other corrupt practices in the Russian judicial system of the time.
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