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Sonechka, a novella by Ludmila Ulitskaya (1995)
Prix Médicis (1996, France)
Literature Prize Giuseppe Acerbi (1998, Italy)
Rights sold: Bulgaria - COLIBRI, Chile - LOM, China - KUN LUN, Beijing Publishing Group, Czech Republic - HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGIES, Croatia - SYSPRINT, Egypt - AL KARMA BOOKS, Estonia - TANAPAEV, France - GALLIMARD, Finland - SILTALA, Germany - VOLK UND WELT (LUCHTENHAND LUEBBE), The Netherlands - DE GEUS, Hungary - MAGVETO, Iran - WHALE, Israel - AM OVED, Italy - E/O, Japan - SCHIN ZHO SHA, Korea - GIMM-YOUNG, Latvia - Zvaigzne ABC, Lithuania - KYTOS KNYGOS, Norway - BAZAR, Poland - PHILIP WILSON, Portugal - CAMPO DAS LETRAS, CAVALO DE FERRO, Romania - HUMANITAS, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - PAIDEIA, Slovakia - VYDAVATELSTVO SSS, Spain - ANAGRAMA, Sweden - NORSTEDTS, Taiwan - LOCUS, Turkey - AD KITAPCILIK, USA - SCHOCKEN, Vietnam - NHANAM
The heroine, Sonechka, reveals a love and loyalty at once astounding in its generosity and grotesque in its pathos. Sonechka so loves her husband and their life together, that she accepts what many would find unthinkable. In her novel Ulitskaya covers the tumultuous terrain of relationships and love in 20th-century Russia. While some details are time- and place-specific, the characters' motives and feelings rise to the universal.
"Ulitskaya brilliantly evokes resilient characters, showing us the Russian soul as transformed throughout its complicated history." (Kirkus Review)
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The Fifth Kingdom, a novel by Yuri Buida (2018)
Rights sold: Russia - AST
A crime story set in fictionalized Moscow in 1622, The Fifth Kingdom is "an exciting, soul-searching, instructive, and amusing story in twelve chapters - according to the number of gates of the Heavenly City - featuring secret agents of the Kremlin, Scottish Guards, walking dead, foreign spies, enchanting women, hired assassins, alchemists, freethinkers, kings, monks, vampires, boyars, bastards, aeronauts, drunken witches, as well as one marble Venus and the Great Tree."
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