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Advent, a novel by Ksenia Buksha
Rights sold: Russia - AST
Longlisted for the 2021 National Bestseller Award
Ksenia Buksha's 2021 novel Advent offers scenes with a family from St. Petersburg – two parents and one child who’s opening windows on an advent calendar – as well as windows into the parents’ memories.
Read moreGod of Rain, a novel by Maya Kucherskaya (2006)
Rights sold: Croatia - Zagrebacka naklada, Russia - AST
Student Booker Prize (2007)
God of Rain is a short novel, dynamically plotted and with none of the excesses we have come to associate with “youth” novels. Quite the opposite, it is the story of Anya, a nice, well-educated young woman, who graduates from college as promising young intellectual. She starts her philological studies in Moscow University, but falls into a deep depression, and converts to active Orthodoxy. Her conversion leaves her firmly determined to go to live in a monastery. But instead she falls in love with her spiritual father and ultimately emigrates to Canada. Throughout all of this, she remains a virgin and a profound spiritual seeker.
In this novel we have a fresh view on the involvement of the young people in the new Orthodox wave that seems to be overflowing in Russia...
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