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Animator, a novel by Andrei Volos (2004)
Shortlisted for National Literary Award Big Book (2006, Russia)
Rights sold: Germany – HANSER, Finland – BAZAR, Italy – Frassinelli, Turkey – DOGAN KITAP
Andrei Volos may be the first writer living in contemporary Russia to produce a work of fiction grounded in the ongoing nightmare of terrorism in Chechnya, the surrounding pro- separatist provinces and the Russian capital, Moscow. A native of Dushanbe, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Tadzhikistan, Volos has a knack for immersing the reader in the very complexity of the events we tend to hear about from mass media—a newspaper headline, an Internet article, a TV reportage. Operation “Resurrection” is the first fictionalized account of the conflict that takes a stab at portraying the events through a series of believable, well fleshed-out characters from both sides of the fence, Russian and Muslim alike. Volos successfully mixes reality with the supernatural, giving the...
Read moreWomen's Lies, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2003)
Rights sold: Albania – OMSKA, Denmark - GYLDENDAL, Finland – SILTALA, France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HANSER, Greece - KASTANIOTIS, Hungary - MAGVETO, Italy – FRASSINELLI, Japan – SHINCHOSHA, Lithuania - JOTEMA , The Netherlands - DE GEUS, Poland - PHILIP WILSON, Portugal - RELOGIO D’AGUA, Romania - S.C HUMANITAS S.A, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia – PAIDEIA, Spain – ANAGRAMA
The novel is divided into chapters that seem short stories, but all fit into the same plotline and feature the same characters:
1. Diana;
2. Brother Yuri;
3. Finish of the Plot;
4. The Phenomenon of Nature;
5. Good Luck;
6. The Art of Living