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Where Did The Mountain Go by Stanislav Vostokov
,Rights sold: Russia - Mellik-Pashaev
The White Ravens catalogue 2021
How does a construction industry affects our planet? It definitely took peace and quiet away from this mountain who decided to escape from its original location, and went travelling all over the Earth in search for a place where she can just be. But the fact that entire surface of Earth is under development by man left her with the only option to explore other planets where mankind hasn’t set his foot upon yet.
This beautiful picture book will make a fantastic fisrt reading about environmental and ecology issues.
Original language: Russian.
52 full-colour illustrations by Maksim Pokaliev.
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Ancestor, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1982)
Rights sold: Germany - Volk u. Welt, Spain - Alfaguara, Marbot
A satirical vision of the Soviet Union at the times of the Thaw.
Central figure of Makanin´s Ancestor is Old Yakushkin, a healer who has the gift of curing the terminally ill pacients abandoned by official medicine. His healing methods cannot be less orthodox: he waits for the patient to have a crisis to yell at him, shake him, torment his spirit until all his resistance is broken. The satisfactory cure of the dying man is obtained on the basis of terrible speeches and very little food. With irony and pathos, wit and malice, Makanin introduces us to the feverish Yakushkin in all his heartbreaking spiritual evolution: a young playboy, he was accused of fraud and confined to a labor camp in Siberia, where by accident he discovered in himself a healing gift. Makanin's hero recalls the great protagonists of the classical Russian literature.
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