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JUST PUBLISHED: Boris Nossik's Anna and Amedeo in Italy
JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Girls in Finland
JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Discarded Relics in Germany
Elena Kostioukovitch in Jerusalem
L’écrivaine russe Ludmila Oulitskaïa décorée de la Légion d’honneur
JUST PUBLISHED: Third edition of Why Italians Love to Talk about Food by Elena Kostioukovitch in Russia
JUST PUBLISHED: Ulitskaya's Medea and her Children in Romania
JUST PUBLISHED: Zwinger by Elena Kostioukovitch in Italy
AD: Irina Sherbakova in Vienna. Austria
AD: Maya Kucherskaya, Alexander Kabakov, and Alexei Makushinsky at the 2014 BuchWein Fair
JUST PUBLISHED: Non-Memoirs by Lotman in Spanish
AD: Lecture by Elena Kostioukovitch in Tokyo
JUST PUBLISHED: The Old House Under the Cypress Tree by Fazil Iskander in Italy
JUST PUBLISHED: All Our Lord´s Men by Ulitskaya in Korea
JUST PUBLISHED: Non-Memoirs by Lotman in English

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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

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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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