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JUST PUBLISHED: Yuri Lotman's Conversations about Russian Culture in Italy
Ludmila Ulitskaya is a 2018 Neustadt Prize Finalist
JUST PUBLISHED: The Diary of a GULAG Prison Guard in Netherlands
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Poland
Guzel Yakhina in Italy, September 2017
Guzel Yakhina in Switzerland and France, September 2017
French edition of Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes wins "Transfuge" prize
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Czech Republic
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Ukraine
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in France
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Yakov's Ladder in Germany
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Hungary
JUST PUBLISHED: Sasha Sokolov´s A School for Fools in Taiwan
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Lithuania
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Yakov's Ladder in Sweden

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The Third Heart (Potemkin), a novel by Yuri Buida (2008)

Rights sold: France – Gallimard, Russia - EKSMO

A short novel that narrates the improbable life of a Russian émigré in France and engages in polemical dialogue with the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov.

There was a time when nearly fifty thousand Russians lived in Paris (on the eve of World War I, they were hardly more than thirty-six thousand in all France). They prayed in Orthodox churches, sent their children to Russian schools, and discussed Dostoevsky in La Rotonde coffee shop.

Fyodor Zavalishin, also known as Theo, was one of those Russians who managed to escape the Bolshevik Revolution and settled in Paris. As many of them, he also visited a screening of Eisenstein's masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin in November 1926. As a soldier, in 1905 he took part in the suppression of the revolt in the Russian fleet. When he watched Eisenstein's impressive reconstruction of the massacre in the port of...

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Don Domino (The Zero Train), a novel by Yuri Buida (1994)

Rights are handled on behalf of Editions Gallimard

Rights sold: China - Thinkingdom Media Group, France – Gallimard, Germany - AUFBAU, Italy - ATMOSPHERE LIBRI, Norway – Aschehoug, Russia - EKSMO, Spain – Automatica, Turkey – Dogan, UK/US – Dedalus (as The Zero Train)

Russian Booker prize nominee

The action in this novel takes place in a remote train station in the far reaches of Russia. It relates the life of the inhabitants who watch each night the passing of a train bound for some mysterious destination... A lot of comparisons have been made to try to capture the essence of this short novel – Kafkaesque, Beckett with trains, you get the picture. And whilst these may be true to a degree, it is only a small degree. Buida has his own voice and his own approach. Indeed, like all good writers he has subverted everything without once straying...

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