ELKOST International literary agency - JUST PUBLISHED: Alexei Makushinsky´s Steamship to Argentina in Germany

Alexei Makushkinsky´s award-winning title Steamship to Argentina released in Germany by Carl Hanser Verlag as Dampfschiff nach Argentinien (trad. Annelore Nitschke)

Die schillernde Lebensgeschichte eines weltberühmten Architekten und ein atemberaubendes Panorama des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Als der Erzähler Ende der 80er Jahre in Paris Alexandre Vosco trifft, kennt er nicht einmal den Namen des weltberühmten Architekten aus Russland. Noch Jahre später lassen ihn die Erinnerungen an Voscos Erzählungen nicht mehr los: die unbeschwerte Kindheit im Baltikum, die Freundschaft mit Wladimir Grawe, den Vosco im russischen Bürgerkrieg aus den Augen verlor und 1950 auf einem Schiff nach Südamerika wiedertraf. Wer war dieser Vosco, der ins Exil ging, zwei Kinder mit ganz unterschiedlichen Frauen hatte und die Architektur revolutionierte? Mit Alexei Makushinsky ist ein grandioser Erzähler und Stilist zu entdecken.

Stalen, a novel by Yuri Buida (2017)

Rights sold: France - GALLIMARD, Russia - EKSMO

Longlisted for the 2018 National Bestseller literary award

Yuri Buida's new novel is set in 1990s and early 2000s, and gives an account of the post-Soviet life in Moscow. It's written as an imitation of a "B-movie" script: the style is impeccable, form exact, characters solid, and it's abundantly stuffed with eroticism on verge of porn, with bloody murders, and incredible adventures of the protagonist.

The author calls his novel "the picaresque adventure story." Indeed, according to the laws of genre, its narrative is written in first person as autobiographical account of its main character Stalen Igruyev (the name is, of course, a provocation, a game, as it has nothing to do with Stalin and Lenin); the protagonist is of low social class, he gets by with wit and rarely deigns to hold a job; the story is told in a...

The Detector, a novel by Ksenia Buksha

Rights sold: Russia - AST

Longlisted for the 2018 National Bestseller literary award

Ksenia Buksha’s new novel The Detector is an anti-utopia dressed up as a classic closed-circle murder mystery, where biting sociopolitical satire on a police state alternates with profound poetic lyricism. The action takes place in Russia in the near future, where everyone in the land is preparing for the tsar’s coronation. The ceremony is to take place in an ancient monastery on the “Islands” (invented by the author, they are an evident allusion to the Solovetsky monastery beloved by Vladimir Putin). With thousands of people thronging to the locale, a walk-through security screener – the Detector – has been installed at the landing pier as one of the event’s many safety measures. Ten visitors set it off, for reasons none of them can fathom, and they are divested of their possessions and taken into custody...

JUST PUBLISHED: Alexei Makushinsky´s Steamship to Argentina in Germany

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Stalen, a novel by Yuri Buida (2017)

The Detector, a novel by Ksenia Buksha