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Poor Relatives and The Queen of Spades, two collections of short stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Rights sold: Bulgaria - Short Stories 1 - COLIBRI , Czech Republic - Short Stories 1 - HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGIES, Finland - SILTALA, France - Short Stories 1 - GALLIMARD, France - Short Stories 2 - GALLIMARD, France - Short Stories 3 - GALLIMARD, Germany - Short Stories 1 - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), Germany - Short Stories 2 - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), Great Britain - Short Stories - HARVILL, Israel - Short Stories - AM OVED, Israel - Short Stories - LIBROS, Italy - Short Stories - LUCIANA TUFFANI, Romania - Short Stories 2 - S.C HUMANITAS S.A, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Slovakia - Short Stories - VYDAVATELSTVO SSS, Turkey - Short Stories - AD KITAPCILIK
We offer two "ideal" collections of Ulitskaya's short stories:
A. Poor Relatives
Featuring the following short stories:
01 SCHASTLIVYE The Fortunate Ones
02 BEDNYE RODSTVENNIKI Poor Relatives
03 BRON'KA Bron'ka
04 GENELE SUMOCHNIZA Genele the Handbag Lady
05 DOCH' BUCHARY The Daughter of Bokhara
06 DOLGAYA DOLGAYA ZHIZN' A Long, Long Life
07 LYALIN DOM Olga’s Home
08 GULYA Gulya
09 NAROD IZBRANNYJ The Chosen PeopleB. The Queen of Spades
Featuring the following short stories:
01 PIKOVAYA DAMA The Queen of Spades
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02 ZVER The Beast
03 ORLOVY SOKOLOVY The Orlovs Sokolovs
04 ZY-UY-UY-URICH Zurich
05 GOLUBCHIK Angel
06 ZHENZCHINY RUSSKICH SELENIJ Dauntless Women of the Russian Steppe
07 VTOROE LICO Second Person
08 PERLOVYJ SUP Scotch Broth -
The Third Heart (Potemkin), a novel by Yuri Buida (2008)
Rights sold: France – Gallimard, Russia - EKSMO
A short novel that narrates the improbable life of a Russian émigré in France and engages in polemical dialogue with the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov.
There was a time when nearly fifty thousand Russians lived in Paris (on the eve of World War I, they were hardly more than thirty-six thousand in all France). They prayed in Orthodox churches, sent their children to Russian schools, and discussed Dostoevsky in La Rotonde coffee shop.
Fyodor Zavalishin, also known as Theo, was one of those Russians who managed to escape the Bolshevik Revolution and settled in Paris. As many of them, he also visited a screening of Eisenstein's masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin in November 1926. As a soldier, in 1905 he took part in the suppression of the revolt in the Russian fleet. When he watched Eisenstein's impressive reconstruction of the massacre in the port of Odessa on the big screen, he suddenly felt guilt of being involved in this crime... Theo rushes to the nearest police station to make a confession, then tries to cure his remorse and guilt in a psychiatric hospital. There he learns from the newspapers a horrible story of seven women who were found murdered in a mass grave in Deauville. Without hesitation, Theo attributes the massacre to his former comrade in arms, badly disabled Ivan Domani, for whom he had just agreed to make erotic pictures of seven young creatures. Thus began a long Theo’s journey between violence and redemption ...
Buida’s The Third Heart is an amazing book that confirms more than ever that Yuri Bouida, who enjoys a great prestige in the country, occupies a prominent place in the great Russian literary tradition.
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