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Just the Plague, a screenplay by Ludmila Ulitskaya (1988, 2020)
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The EBRD Literature Prize 2022 Shortlist
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novelized screenplay Just the Plague, written in 1988 and first published in 2020, is based on real-life events when an epidemic of pneumonic plague was averted in December 1939. Three people died, but it could have claimed many more lives. Ostensibly about a medical plague, the real plague is the Stalinist police state which, with its trials, executions and banishments, had got completely out of hand. This is a hard-hitting, precise and powerful evocation of the time, with obvious relevance to the present state of Russia and the present pandemic.
The manuscript was politically unpublishable for many years, and it was only when sorting through her...
Read moreClear on the Left, a novel by Józef Mackiewicz
Original Polish title: Lewa wolna
Rights status: available for all languages less Polish.
Published by: Polish - Kontra
A novel about the Polish-Soviet War of 1920.
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