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Featured titles
Children of Brezhnev, a novel by Sana Valiulina
Longlisted for the 2017 NOS literary award
Rights sold: Estonia - TANAPAEV, Netherlands - Prometheus, Russia - AST
Children of Brezhnev is a story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of the economic and spiritual decline of the Soviet Union with its underlying ethnic tensions, the Afghan war and the slow but steady criminalization of the country. The novel culminates in the violent transition to a free market leading to a new Russia where the higher echelons of society and the underworld finally merge.
Children of Brezhnev is an extremely disturbing book which shows with an amazing precision what people are capable of. -- Trouw newspaper...
A rich modern-day novel that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy would also like to have written. -- De Standaard
Children of Brezhnev is a narrative art masterpiece. Valiulina uses traditional literary means to describe a psychologyof her characters, but...
Read moreEternal Life of Liza K., a novel by Marina Vishneventskaya
Rights sold: Russia - AST
Winner of the 2017 Znamya literary magazine prize
The title of Vishneventskaya's novel indeed resembles that of the "scandalous" biography of Angela Merkel The First Life of Angela M., but in fact its ideological and informative parameters are much closer to French political novels of the mid-19th century, with political views of the author intertwined within the story itself.
The plot of the novel is set in Moscow and Berlin in 2012 to 2015. The protagonist, Liza Karmannikova, after a series of events in her private life, comes to the realization of her involvement into a socio-political life of her country, and this awareness becomes the important attribute of her world view. But, unlike the old French novels, there is no conflict, especially insoluble, in “Eternal Life ...”, but there is an expressive story about the “unpretentious” young woman narrated in a figurative, rhythmic language.
Liza...
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