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JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Imago/Under the Green Tent in Finland
Irina Sherbakova awarded the 2014 Carl-von-Ossietzky-Preis
JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Imago/Under the Green Tent in France
JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Medea in Latvia
JUST PUBLISHED: Oster´s Mischievous Advices in Japan
Japanese MRS magazine: interview with Ulitskaya
Yuri Buida's Poison and Honey, finalist of the 2014 Ivan Belkin award
Zwinger on bestselling titles lists
JUST PUBLISHED: Yuri Buida's Poison and Honey in Russia
JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Under the Green Tent in the Netherlands
Zwinger: the Book of January, 2014
Mikhail Khodorkovsky released
Five of ten: our titles in the Top-10 of 2013
Russia’s Open Book movie premiering on youtube and on PBS
Francesca Gori's translation of Chistyakov's book awarded

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  • A Gipsy Fortune, a novel by Ilya Mitrofanov (1991)

    Rights sold: Germany - Volk und Welt, France – Rocher, Italy - ISBN, Yugoslavia - Rad, Spain - Lumen

    "A Gipsy Fortune" is the masterful first-person narrative of a poetic love story between a young half-Gipsy woman Sabina grown up in a Tzigane village Karagmeth adjacent to a small Moldavian town Achillea located on the bank of Danube, and a local talented artist Bogdan suffering a heavy form of maniacal-depressive psychosis in the Soviet Union of the post-WWII period.

    Le Bonheur tsigane raconte une âme irréductible à l'embrigadement, la découverte par un regard naïf et perspicace de mondes inconnus: celui, exotique, de la Moldavie où se côtoient Roumains, Russes, Tsiganes, artisans et paysans dont les traditions et les aspirations restent infiniment étrangères au communisme imposé par le régime soviétique; celui, implacable, des tribus tsiganes; celui, hallucinant, de l'incarcération psychiatrique. Le Bonheur tsigane c'est, par antiphrase, la malchance collant au destin de Sabine, la jeune tsigane de Bessarabie qui fait le récit de sa vie. Nous sommes loin de l'image d'Épinal véhiculée par la littérature russe depuis Pouchkine, où les tsiganes évoquent le chant, la danse, l'alcool, les officiers de l'armée impériale rivalisant de folies pour l'amour d'une gitane. L'héroïne de Mitrofanov est une orpheline maltraitée. Cette belle voleuse, fière, sensible, s'éprend d'un peintre moldave qui noie ses démons dans la vodka et sombre peu à peu dans la démence.

    Né aux confins de la Moldavie et de la Roumanie en 1946, Ilia Mitrofanov décrit la vie d'une région qu'il connaît intimement. Russe ethnique, il parle le roumain et le tsigane. Il était pêcheur, tonnelier puis soudeur avant de devenir écrivain. Sa prose populaire, transparente, recouvre en fait une profonde réflexion sur les réalités soviétiques. Publié dans la revue littéraire Znamia en 1991, Le Bonheur tsigane lui a valu une célébrité immédiate.

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  • Sliding Into Isolation: Russia and the World. Diary of the pre-COVID Times With a Quarantine Epilogue. Collected essays by Kirill Kobrin, 2021

    Rights sold: Russia – NLO

     

    Kirill Kobrin himself is what we would call a rolling stone, a naturally born nomad. He has been moving from one place to another for the past 20 years, never really settling in one place, though eagerly absorbing everythying these places had to offer. While moving from one geographical point to another, he kept a diary explaining the cultural and political context immideately preceding the period of global lockdowns in 2021-2022. Reflecting upon objects, artefacts, texts and music he stumbled upon during the last three years, the author creates a detailed imprint of the precovid world that we left behind.

    During the pandemic, he decided to publish this book sharing his thoughts about what was going to happen after the COVID.  Should we expect the end of the world, or we can overcome this? Will the pandemic change people, make them more honest and better? Will humanity learn from this catastrophe some solidarity, humility and humanity? It is through answering these complicated questions the author invites us to a dialogue, or rather discussion about what was going on not that long ago and what is happening now.

     

    See a short excerpt from Kobrin's Sliding Into Isolation: Russia and the World. in English (translated by Thomas Campbell) at openDemocracy project website:

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-isolation-kobrin/

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