ELKOST International literary agency - May 20-23, 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Warsaw

Daniel Stein, tłumacz, 2012 Poland, Weltbild Polska

Ludmila Ulitskaya participates to the launch of Polish translation of her award-winning novel Daniel Stein, Interpreter released earlier this month by Świat Książki (Weltbild Polska) during the 3rd Warsaw Book Fair as Daniel Stein, tłumacz.

During her short stay in Warsaw, along with multiple scheduled TV, radio and newspaper interviews, Ulitskaya will make the following public appearances:

TUESDAY, MAY 22nd

12.00 – meeting at the Russian Literature Institute, 4 Szturmowa Street, room 108
Host: prof. Alicja Wołodźko-Butkiewicz

6 pm – the Book Launch, Dom Spotkań z Historią, 20 Karowa Street
(host: Anna Żebrowska, excerpts from the book read by Ignacy Gogolewski)

Asan, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (2008)

Rights sold: Albania - OMSCA-1, France - GALLIMARD, Germany - LUCHTERHAND, Netherlands - DE ARBEIDERSPERS, Poland - REBIS, Russia - IZDATELSTVO E, Slovenia - Modrijan, Spain - ACANTILADO, Turkey - ALFA

Winner of the 2008 Big Book Award

On the surface, Vladimir Makanin’s Asan is a stream-of-consciousness account of events in the life of the Russian manager of a military warehouse in Chechnia. Deeper down, Asan is less a book about Russia’s Chechen wars than a novel showing how war forces participants and observers to piece together narratives that explain or justify actions.

At the centre of Makanin’s narrive is major Aleksandr Sergeevich Zhilin, nicknamed Asan by his fellow officers. He finds himself running a supply depot during both the first and second wars, supplying the Russian troops with fuel--and running his own little business on the side. A basically honest man, Major Zhilin is still one of those...

Aquarius over Odessa, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1992)

Rights sold: Germany - Volk und Welt, Spain - Lumen

"Unfortunately, AQUARIUS OVER ODESSA will remain the author's final work; the tragic accident that took his life in 1994 has deprived Russian literature of one of its more promising talents." -- Joseph P. Mozur Jr., World Literature Today

The astrological sign of change, Aquarius, bodes neither peace nor goodwill for Mitrofanov's blue-collar hero Semyon Stavraki, a deep-sea diver working in the rough and bustling port of Odessa. Stavraki, an orphan raised in the ruins of postwar Odessa, claims the city as his mother and proudly credits her with having taught him honesty, respect, and tolerance for others. Nevertheless, Stavraki's story illustrates how bad things can befall good people, and his fortunes take a disastrous turn precisely when the star sign appears over the city.

The first-person narrative opens with Stavraki's homecoming from a prison camp in the north...

May 20-23, 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya in Warsaw

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Asan, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (2008)

Aquarius over Odessa, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1992)