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Chik and His Friends, collected novellas by Fazil Iskander (1971, 1983)

Published by: Italy - Edizioni e/o (1989), Turkey - Dünya Kitapları (2004), USA - Ardis (1985)

Thoroughly enjoyable stories about a boy growing up in Stalin-era Abkhazia. Iskander's child psychology feels wonderfully flawless as he describes Chik's joys, fears, and annoyances.

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...

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World English rights in Ulitskaya's Under The Green Tent (Imago) are sold to Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Chik and His Friends, collected novellas by Fazil Iskander (1971, 1983)

Children of Brezhnev, a novel by Sana Valiulina