ELKOST International literary agency - JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Under the Green Tent in the Netherlands

Ludmila Ulitskaya's Under the Green Tent / Imago has just been released in the Netherlands by De Heus in Arie van der Ent's translation as Een Russische geschiedenis.

Moskou, halverwege de vorige eeuw. Ilja, Sanja en Micha zijn drie goede vrienden die sinds hun jongensjaren als buitenbeentjes door het leven gaan. Wanneer de bullebakken uit hun schooltijd geen bedreiging meer vormen, zijn er nog altijd de nietsontziende ogen van de overheid. Ogen die maken dat Micha zijn fijne baan verliest en in de gevangenis belandt, dat Ilja zich onder druk bij de KGB aansluit en dat Sanja zijn geboorteland verruilt voor het vrije Westen. - See more at: http://www.degeus.nl/boeken/detail/3268/een-russische-geschiedenis.html#sthash.ZUXOdLoh.dpuf

Under the Green Tent, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2010)

Rights sold: Brazil - Editora34, Croatia - FRAKTURA, Czech Republic - PASEKA, Estonia – TANAPAEV, Finland - SILTALA, France – GALLIMARD, Germany – HANSER, Greece - KASTANIOTIS, Hungary – MAGVETO, Iran - Houpaa Books, Italy – BOMPIANI, Japan - Shinchosha, Lithuania - JOTEMA, The Netherlands – DE GEUS, Norway – CAPPELEN DAMM, Poland – BAUER-WELTBILD, Romania - Humanitas, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - ARHIPELAG, Slovakia – SLOVART, Sweden - Ersatz, Turkey - ITHAKI, World English rights - FSG

In the best traditions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ulitskaya raises the bar with each successive book, taking on increasingly more demanding artistic and intellectual challenges and becoming a writer for everybody, not only for her own home readership. She moves far beyond the framework of tired cliches about the enigmatic Russian soul, and in place of laboured and portentous questions proffers her own answers.

Her new novel can...

By Richter's Side. Dialogues with Sviatoslav Richter by Yuri Borisov (2003, 2011)

Rights sold: France – ACTES SUD, Japan – ONGAKU NO TOMO, Russia – RUTENA, AZBOOKA, Spain – ACANTILADO

Richter shared with his younger friend the stories of his childhood, and recollections of his meetings with other celebrities (Britten, Fischer-Dieskau, Gavrilov, Michelangeli, Picasso, Prokofiev, Serkin, Sofronitski, Vedernikov, Yudina, etc.). He explained his vision of music, comparing it with other arts: painting (Ernst, Renoir, Schiele, Vermeer, etc..), literature (Balzac, Block, Maeterlinck, Mann, Ostrovsky, Proust, Racine, Rostand, etc..), cinema (Alexandrov, Chaplin, Cocteau, Kurosawa, Pasolini, etc..). Notes taken during or after these extremely interesting conversations Borisov has later converted into a book, thanks to which we can look into the inner world of Sviatoslav Richter, one of the most exciting figures on 20th century musical horizon.

ABOUT SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (1915-1997)

- The Italian critic Piero Rattalino has asserted that the only pianists comparable to Richter in the history of piano performance were Franz...

JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Under the Green Tent in the Netherlands

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Under the Green Tent, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2010)

By Richter's Side. Dialogues with Sviatoslav Richter by Yuri Borisov (2003, 2011)