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Harbin Moths, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2013)
Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, Russia - AST
Winner of the 2014 NOS Literature Award
Andrei Ivanov’s ‘Harbin Moths’ is a bewitching novel about Russians living in Estonia in the period between the World Wars, and about their resting point, Tallinn, or Revel as it was known Russian-style. The central character, artist and art photographer Boris Rebrov is a refugee who as a seventeen year old retreated with Yudenich’s North-western Army from Russia to Estonia. On the journey – somewhere in Estonia’s border regions – his parents and little sister die from typhus, the memory of which haunts him. As a photographer Rebrov tries to capture places of former happiness which have been forever lost, he projects his lost hometown of St. Petersburg on to Tallinn, and at the same time catches, as if intentionally, moments which weren’t intended to last - dreams not the truth; spaces...
Read moreThe Book For Adults, a novel by Ilya Ehrenburg (1936)
Published in 1936 in Russia, this book represents a masterful mixture of autobiographical prose with pure fiction, and includes Ehrenburg’s vivid recollections of the days of his youth spent among Parisian Bohemia. Although an independent work, The Book For Adults is regarded by literary critics as a first draft for Ehrenburg's Peoples, Years, Life memories corpus.
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