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JUST PUBLISHED: Non-Memoirs by Lotman in Spanish
AD: Lecture by Elena Kostioukovitch in Tokyo
JUST PUBLISHED: The Old House Under the Cypress Tree by Fazil Iskander in Italy
JUST PUBLISHED: All Our Lord´s Men by Ulitskaya in Korea
JUST PUBLISHED: Non-Memoirs by Lotman in English
Ludmila Ulitskaya in France, September 2014
Master-class by Elena Kostioukovich in Ca' Foscari University
Elena Kostioukovitch at the III International Congress of Literary Translators
Elena Kostioukovitch at the Turin Epicurean Capital
Ludmila Ulitskaya awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2014
Ulitskaya and Kostioukovitch at the 2014 La Milanesiana
JUST PUBLISHED: Memories of Agnes Mironova in Poland
PEN International conference in Stockholm, June 9, 2014
Maya Kucherskaya at the Warsaw Book Fair in May, 2014
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Irina Sherbakova in Hamburg, May 15

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Baize-Covered Table with Decanter, a novel by Vladimir Makanin (1993)

Rights sold: China - LITZIAN, France - GALLIMARD, AWorld English - Readers International,

Winner of the 1993 Russian Booker Award

Baize-Covered Table with Decanter describes one man's psychological torture as he faces an impending visit to be interrogated at the Table for a perceived, minor infraction. Makanin describes in some detail each character present at the Table, their purpose, techniques, and psychology. He also descibes in flashbacks the physical torture of suspects in Soviet days past and the mental torture of some as they are forcibly drugged in state mental hospitals. The book contains a few sections with an adult material not appropriate for minors; one scene in particular describes the sexual abuse of a corpse and is really quite disturbing.

Makanin does a good job describing the moral corruption of Russian/Soviet society. Neighbor is turned against neighbor. Bribes and sexual favors are freely exchanged. Fear rules. It seems no one is immune to this societal degradation.

Baize-Covered Table leaves the reader with the impression that, although the Soviet torture methods may have diminished in recent years, psychological torture that breaks a person's spirit, mind, and body may persist... there will always be a Table in Russia.

"...it is all of Solzhenitsyn compressed into 144 pages" -- Kevin Tole, GoodReads

Girls, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2002)

Rights sold: Finland - SILTALA, France – GALLIMARD, Germany – VOLK UND WELT, Hungary – MAGVETO, Israel – LIBROS, Japan - GUNZOSHA, Romania – HUMANITAS, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - PAIDEIA