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Lesung: "Die Kehrseite des Himmels" Ljudmila Ulitzkaja mit ihrer Übersetzerin Ganna-Maria Braungardt
Ljudmila Ulitzkaja, "die vermutlich einflussreichste Schriftstellerin des heutigen Russlands" (Elke Schmitter), ist mit ihrem neuen Band autobiographischer Prosa zu Gast, "Die Kehrseite des Himmels" (Hanser).
Wo: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (lcb)
Adresse: Am Sandwerder 5, 14109 Berlin (Steglitz-Zehlendorf)
Rights sold: Czech Republic – PROSTOR, Italy - ATMOSPHERE LIBRI, Russia – AZBOOKA, OGI, USA – GROVE WEIDENFELD
"An enchanting, tragic, and touching work." - VLADIMIR NABOKOV
"A book of rare depth, ...wildly funny and oddly fascinating and sad; it is the sort of book you feel sorry to close after the last page." - TATYANA TOLSTAYA
"It will undoubtedly come to be recognized as one of the great classics of Russian prose." — Newsweek
"The voice is amazingly sensitive and imaginative, gloriously lucid of language and full of broad comedy and whimsical wit." — The Washington-Post Book World
"Sokolov already, on the strength of A School for Fools, assured of a place in the pantheon of twentieth-century Russian literature... He is a prose poet who combines, to a rare degree, linguistic precision, imaginative boldness, and wit in its profounder sense—the intellectual faculty that...
Rights sold: Russia - EKSMO
Longlisted for the 2016 NOS literary award
Longlisted for the 2016 Big Book literary award
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