We're happy to announce that Marina Vishnevetskaya's collection of short stories Is There A Coffee After Death? (Ma c'è il caffè dopo la morte? Cinque storie di donne e un'intervista) published in Italy in 2024 by Queen Kristianka Edizioni (translated by Marilena Rea) became a winner of the 2024 Vitruvio-Le Muse Literary Award of the City of Lecce (Italy) as the Best Fiction Book of the Year.
Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, Russia - EKSMO
Winner of the 2019 Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Russian Author Award
Inhabitants of the Funny Cemetery is a panoramic novel which vividly brings to life the worlds of three generations of Russian émigrés in Paris. To recap, the Russian emigration began with the October Revolution and continued apace for two decades, meaning that by the start of the Second World War almost 80,000 Russians had established themselves in France. Paris quickly became the capital of the Russian emigration, not to be replaced by New York until the middle of the century.
The novel contains multiple voices, including three first-person protagonists, whose voices start to overlap, to intertwine, and set off unexpected echoes. The novel’s main narrator is the Soviet émigré Viktor Lipatov (not necessarily his real name), a former dissident who spent several years in psychiatric detention, fled to America, and then arrived...
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The 2021 Big Book Award finalist
