ELKOST International literary agency - Umberto Eco's novels are published by Corpus Books, Russia

New revised editions of The Name of the Rose and of the Postscript to The Name of the Rose have just been released in Russia by CORPUS BOOKS, a high-quality literature imprint of AST publishing group. First printing is already sold, additional printing is on its way.

Revised editions of other Eco's novels and non-fictional titles will be released by CORPUS BOOKS later this year and in 2012. Among them the first Russian edition of Eco's new novel The Cemetery of Prague which will be presented during Non/Fiction Book Fair in Moscow.

Russian subsidiary rights in Umberto Eco's works were licensed by CORPUS BOOKS from RCS Libri by arrangement with ELKOST Intl. literary agency.

Cool Blue Blood, a novel by Yuri Buida (2011)

Rights sold: Czech Republic - MARATON, France - GALLIMARD, Italy - ATMOSPHERE LIBRI, Macedonia - ANTOLOG, Russia - EKSMO, Portugal - GRADIVA, Serbia - GEOPOETICA, Spain - AUTOMATICA, World Arabic - THAQAFA

Winner of the 2012 Russian Student Booker Award
Winner of the 2012 Città di Penne-Mosca Prize (Italy)
Winner of the 2011 Znamya Literary Magazine Prize
2011 Big Book Literary Award nominee

Buida’s Cool Blue Blood is filled with literary allusions, peculiar characters, and odd happenings: on the first page, a fly-catching elderly actress with the not-so-common name Ida gets up when the clock rings three in Africa. All this in a Russian town called Chudov, a name a little longer than чудо (miracle or wonder) and a little shorter than чудовище (monster). Africa, it turns out, is the name of the building where Ida lives: it was formerly the bordello known as Тело...

Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness, edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2013, NF)

Rights sol to: Russia - AST, Poland - ŚWIAT KSIĄŻKI

In 2012, Ludmila Ulitskaya launched the major documentary project “After the Great Victory,” for which people who were children between 1945 and 1953 were invited to send in their childhood memories. Work that Ulitskaya selected was published by AST in 2013 in the collection “Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness” with Ulitskaya’s preface and comments.

This book is yet another project in social portraiture by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Its goal is to restore historical memory in Russia, a country burned many times over and still being burned. Ulitskaya chooses the relatively rare genre of folk memoir – the stories and witness accounts of “little people”. Written quite subjectively and without artifice, together they create the magical effect of compound vision, where space and the objects in it are simultaneously seen from all sides. Besides these mini-memoirs, the book also contains eighteen forewords...

Umberto Eco's novels are published by Corpus Books, Russia - October, 2011

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Cool Blue Blood, a novel by Yuri Buida (2011)

Tomorrow There Will Be Happiness, edited by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2013, NF)