ELKOST International literary agency - May 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Prague

Czech publisher Paseka Publishers presents Ludmila Ulitskaya´s Daniel Stein, Interpreter as Daniel Stein, překladatel at the 18^th International Book Fair and Literary Festival in Prague, Czech Republic.

During her stay in Prague, Ludmila Ulitskaya will make the following public appearances:

Thursday 17 May

10.00–11.00 Opening Ceremony of Book World Prague

17.00 Meeting with readers, Russian Centre of Science and Culture (Na Zátorce 16, Praha 6).

20.00 Evening Ceremony of Book World Prague (Cafe Slavia)

Friday 18 May

12.00 Book presentation and discussion (ca 50 min., Book World Prague)

17.00 Debate with writers from Ukraine (Anton Santchenko), Bulgaria (Kalin Terziysky), Georgia (Guram Odisharia), Turkey (Ayfer Tunc), Romania (Florin Bican), (ca. 100 min, Book World Prague)

20.00 Bookpresentation and book signing (ca 60 min., Cafe FRA)

Paseka Publishers (general contact): Chopinova 4, 120 00 Prague 2, tel. (+420) 222 710 751, fax (+420) 222 718 886, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Featured titles

Churov and Churbanov, a novel by Ksenia Buksha

Rights sold: Russia - AST

Shortlisted for the 2020 Big Book Award

Churov and Churbanov is a classic Petersburg tale in the tradition of Dostoevsky and Gogol, and the city’s atmosphere is palpable in every scene. The book is also a family drama; a riff on the Gothic theme of the double; a laugh-out-loud adventure novel; a sly triumph of speculative fiction; an elegy on growing up (and old); and a portrait of two familiar types: the awkward, hard-working nice guy (Churov, a pediatric cardiologist) and the life-of-the-party woman magnet (Churbanov, a two-bit wheeler-dealer). Their dissimilar lives begin to entwine after they discover their hearts beat in unison. This seemingly pointless synchrony has a side effect: a pair like them can sync other people’s heartbeats to their own, thus saving the lives of patients with serious heart conditions. But there’s a downside: when one of the original pair dies, all those whose heartbeats the pair synchronized die, too. Churov and Churbanov must follow their hearts, so to speak, in deciding what role their arbitrary gift will play for those around them. Buksha proves we depend on each other more than we realize, and we can save (or destroy) lives even if our hearts don’t beat as one.

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Please check Anne O. Fisher's page for a sample translation and media reviews dedicated to Churov and Churbanov in English: https://www.anneofisher.com/ksenia-buksha

GODS OF THE STEPPE, a novel by Andrei Gelasimov

Rights sold: France - ACTES SUD, Bulgaria - ENTHUSIAST, Russia - EKSMO, World English - AMAZON CROSSING

It is the summer of 1945. Germany has been defeated, Hitler has disappeared, and tensions are mounting ever higher along the Russian-Chinese border…where the threat of Japanese invasion haunts.

For Petka, no life could be more thrilling and glorious than marching into battle alongside the Red Army. But he is only twelve, the bastard child of a fractured family, trapped in a village too tiny for his bursting spirit. So he must make his own adventure wherever he can find it. And if that means passing off a wolf cub as a puppy under the nose of his ferocious grandma, stealing bootleg alcohol for the bivouacked troops he worships, smuggling himself in a barrel across the border and into the line of fire, fighting for his life when his own aimless peers turn inexplicably vicious, or befriending an enigmatic Japanese POW who transcends Petka’s provincial world, then so be it.

By turns comical, harrowing, poignant, and exhilarating, Petka reveals the soul of a boy who knows only to take from life all that he can—not merely what his circumstances allow.