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RAISING LAZARUS, a novel by Vladimir Sharov
Rights sold: Russia - VAGRIUS, ARSIS BOOKS, Serbia - UTOPIA
Through a patchwork of letters and second hand memoirs, the novel follows the lives of two brothers in the first half of the twentieth century. One of the brothers, Fyodor, is a bishop-turned-religious-sectarian. The other brother, Nikolai, is obsessed with the idea of reuniting Russian society in the years after the Russian Civil War. As Raising Lazarus progresses, Nikolai becomes interested in esoteric doctrines that promise to transcend ideological conflicts. The reader soon learns through letters written by Nikolai, that he believes that Christ must return to Earth for salvation to be bestowed on Russia and we see a blending of the Christian and Bolshevik expectations for an “end of history.” Nikolai then begins to believe that only truly terrible human conditions can cause the arrival of the Messiah. This time, Sharov’s mixing of religious and communist beliefs was praised by critics because of Sharov’s clever use of symbolism. Raising Lazarus has sold over 10,000 copies in Russian.
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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