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Chik and His Friends, collected novellas by Fazil Iskander (1971, 1983)
Published by: Italy - Edizioni e/o (1989), Turkey - Dünya Kitapları (2004), USA - Ardis (1985)
Thoroughly enjoyable stories about a boy growing up in Stalin-era Abkhazia. Iskander's child psychology feels wonderfully flawless as he describes Chik's joys, fears, and annoyances.
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ADDENDUM TO OLD PHOTO ALBUM, a novel by Vladislav Otroshenko (2007)
Rights sold: Italy – Voland, Fanucci (magazine rights), France - Verdie, Macedonia - Makedonika Litera, World English - Dalkey Archive Press
A magical realism masterpiece, this family saga is populated by surrealist characters, and narrated with a spicy and clownish language. A mysterious race of a greedy tribe leaded by a bizarre patriarch with a heroic past, all inhabiting the unexplored depths of a house as big as the world. Otroshenko's quirky and cute characters move, peck, amuse one another as if they were puppets of papier mâché, engaged in phantasmagoric adventures, enchanting and exhilarating. Otroshenko makes the entire history of mankind and of Russia to repeat itself endlessly, in concentric circles out of time and space.
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