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Women's Lies, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2003)
Rights sold: Albania – OMSKA, Denmark - GYLDENDAL, Finland – SILTALA, France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HANSER, Greece - KASTANIOTIS, Hungary - MAGVETO, Italy – FRASSINELLI, Japan – SHINCHOSHA, Lithuania - JOTEMA , The Netherlands - DE GEUS, Poland - PHILIP WILSON, Portugal - RELOGIO D’AGUA, Romania - S.C HUMANITAS S.A, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia – PAIDEIA, Spain – ANAGRAMA
The novel is divided into chapters that seem short stories, but all fit into the same plotline and feature the same characters:
1. Diana;
2. Brother Yuri;
3. Finish of the Plot;
4. The Phenomenon of Nature;
5. Good Luck;
6. The Art of Living
Stalen, a novel by Yuri Buida (2017)
Rights sold: France - GALLIMARD, Russia - EKSMO
Longlisted for the 2018 National Bestseller literary award
Yuri Buida's new novel is set in 1990s and early 2000s, and gives an account of the post-Soviet life in Moscow. It's written as an imitation of a "B-movie" script: the style is impeccable, form exact, characters solid, and it's abundantly stuffed with eroticism on verge of porn, with bloody murders, and incredible adventures of the protagonist.
The author calls his novel "the picaresque adventure story." Indeed, according to the laws of genre, its narrative is written in first person as autobiographical account of its main character Stalen Igruyev (the name is, of course, a provocation, a game, as it has nothing to do with Stalin and Lenin); the protagonist is of low social class, he gets by with wit and rarely deigns to hold a job; the story is told in a...
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