Debut novel Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes by a young female author Guzel Yakhina won the most important and prestigious literary award in Russia, The Big Book.
Earlier, Yakhina´s novel became a winner of open reader´s online voting for the same award.
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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.
Read moreThe Scientific Autobiography of Alexander Luria
A life, a human life, is not a life until it is examined; it is not a life until it is truly remembered and appropriated; and such a remembrance is not something passive, but active, the active and creative construction of one’s life, the finding and telling of the true story of one’s life. Oliver W. Sacks, from the foreword to A.R.Luria's The Man with a shattered world.
Biographies of great people, as a rule, are embellished by myths. This is never more true than in the case of A. R. Luria, one of the most brilliant psychologists of the twentieth century. Luria originated and developed many directions in the psychological sciences, including an historical development of cognitive processes, the role of speech in regulation of voluntary actions, and the cerebral organization of psychological processes. His life story is mingled with myths that often obscure the actual facts of his scientific life...
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