The Old House Under the Cypress Tree, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1987)

Published by: Bulgaria - Партииздат (1989), Croatia - Svjetlost (1989), The Netherlands - Contact (1989), USA - Faber and Faber (1996)

Rights sold: Italy - Salani

A novel about growing up in a small provincial Russian town on the Black Sea before and partly during World War II. The ambience is of a multi-ethnic (in the Russian provincial sense), close-knit working-class community, seen through the eyes of a bright, bookish child.

Girls, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2002)

Rights sold: Finland - SILTALA, France – GALLIMARD, Germany – VOLK UND WELT, Hungary – MAGVETO, Israel – LIBROS, Japan - GUNZOSHA, Romania – HUMANITAS, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - PAIDEIA

The novel is divided into chapters that seem short stories, but form part of a single plot and feature the same characters:

1. A Gift from Above;

2. Unfamiliar Children;

3. The Foundling;

4. The second March, a certain Year;

5. The Chicken Pox;

6. The unfortunate, happy Kolyvanova