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THIRST, a novel by Andrei Gelasimov
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Thirst tells the story of 20-year-old Chechen War veteran Kostya. Maimed beyond recognition by a tank explosion, he spends weeks on end locked inside his apartment, his sole companions the vodka bottles spilling from the refrigerator. But soon Kostya’s comfortable if dysfunctional cocoon is torn open when he receives a visit from his army buddies who are mobilized to locate a missing comrade. Through this search for his missing friend, Kostya is able to find himself.
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Between Dog and Wolf, a novel by Sasha Sokolov (1980)
Rights sold: Czech Republic - PROSTOR, China - CHINA WORKER, Germany - ciconia-x-ciconia, Japan - Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Mongolia - MASH NUUTS MEDIA, Poland – WAB, Russia - AZBOOKA, OGI, Serbia - THE SERBIAN LITERARY COOPERATIVE, Turkey - TIMAS, USA – ARDIS, Columbia University Press.
Between Dog and Wolf is a novel of startling originality, difficulty and daring. Its Russian title-idiom refers to twilight when the normally distinct becomes blurred, if not indistinguishable. Between Dog and Wolf, which has some claim to being the Finnegans Wake of Russian literature, was a quantum leap in Sokolov's literary development.
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