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Girls, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2002)
Rights sold: Finland - SILTALA, France – GALLIMARD, Germany – VOLK UND WELT, Hungary – MAGVETO, Israel – LIBROS, Japan - GUNZOSHA, Romania – HUMANITAS, Russia - EKSMO, AST, Serbia - PAIDEIA
The novel is divided into chapters that seem short stories, but form part of a single plot and feature the same characters:
1. A Gift from Above;
2. Unfamiliar Children;
3. The Foundling;
4. The second March, a certain Year;
5. The Chicken Pox;
6. The unfortunate, happy Kolyvanova
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Culture and Explosion by Yuri Lotman (NF)
Rights sold: Czech Republic - HOST, Spain - GEDISA
Originally published in Russian in 1992, a year before Lotman's death, Culture and Explosion puts forth a fundamental theory: the semiotics of culture. Proceeding from a model of communication, Lotman extends the work of the renowned Tartu-Moscow school that he founded, showing not only how culture can be observed and described, but also how it can be governed and guided. In fact, as Lotman demonstrates with copious examples, the modelling system of culture has an immeasurably strong influence on the way that humans experience "reality". As usual, Lotman's erudition is brought to bear on the theory of culture, and the book comprises a host of well-chosen illustrations from history, literature, art and right across the humanities.
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