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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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Rabbits and Boa Constrictors, a novel by Fazil Iskander (1982, 1987)
Published by: Estonia - Perioodika (1989), Croatia - Svjetlost (1989), Czech Republic - Jonathan Livingston (2017), France - Rivages (1990), Italy - Atmosphere libri (2013), Spain - Círculo de Lectores (1991), USA - Ardis (1989), Overlook Press (2014)
A humorous tale about the deteriorating relations between two groups: the rabbits and boa constrictors, Iskander's novella, like Animal Farm, is also a humorous critique of power.
The L.A. Times says "Iskander takes a worthy place in the tradition of Russian satirists, the Gogol of DEAD SOULS, the Nabokov of LOLITA."
This novel originally appeared in Russian in the West in 1982.
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