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JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Daniel Stein, Interpreter in Bulgaria
Guzel Yakhina in Germany, June 2017
JUST PUBLISHED: The House That... by Mariam Petrosyan in English
Writer Elena Rzhevskaya dies at 98
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Italy
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Discarded Relics in France
JUST PUBLISHED: Marina Palei's Choir in Spain
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Netherlands
JUST PUBLISHED: Elena Kostioukovitch's Why Italians... in China
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Germany
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Estonia
Days of Russian Literature, Literaturhaus Zurich, 24-26 February 2017
Lire Magazine named Mariam Petrosyan's The House That the best fantasy book of 2016
Ludmila Ulitskaya wins Reader's choice award of the 2016 Big Book for Yakov's Ladder
Coming soon: The Diary of a GULAG Prison Guard in the UK and US

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Thief, Spy, and Murderer, a novel by Yuri Buida (2013)

2013 Big Book Award finalist

Rights sold: Russia - EKSMO, France - GALLIMARD

"Most of our town was laying in ruins – everywhere shards of houses, walls with gaping windows, basements without buildings – and everything covered by elderberry bushes. In the summer their dense foliage hid all this misery; you could go in the bushes since in the whole town there wasn't a single public toilet, and the men went there to drink, far from prying eyes."

Yuri Buida's new novel, the autobiographical fantasy "Thief, Spy and Murderer", tells a story of hero's childhood, youth, and maturing as a person and writer, his role in that time and place where he was born and lived, namely in the splinters of Teutonic civilization, in Western Prussia, annexed by the Soviet Union after World War II, in a small town outside Kaliningrad, in a time of half-built socialism during Khrushchev's...

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Russian Marmalade, collected plays by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2005)

Rights sold: France - GALLIMARD, Germany - HENSCHEL, Russia - EKSMO, AST

Collection of plays for theater ("Russian Marmalade", "My Grandson Benjamin", and "The Seven Saints from Bruho Village").

Russian Marmalade is a play clearly created in dialogue with Anton Chekhov’s «Cherry Orchard». The play’s heroes live in the same kind of old house with the same cherry trees growing all around, only the cherries themselves get made into jam to be sold to provide the owners of the home with their sole means of survival. It is the end of the twentieth century and Russia has changed course yet again as the old system crumbles.

None of the doors close and the electricity does not always work, but mobile phones are busy ringing all the time. The sentimental Chekhovian girl in this play, it turns out, works round the clock for an erotic phone line, unsuspected, it seems, by her...

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