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Lyudmila Ulitskaya awarded the Günter Grass-Preis 2023 for her life's work
Lyudmila Ulitskaya receives the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize 2023
MEMORIAL human rights group and Ales Bialiatski got the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Ludmila Ulitskaya named a winner of the 2022 Formentor Prize
2022 – The Year of Józef Mackiewicz
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Norway
NEW RELEASE: Ulitskaya's The Big Green Tent in Japan
NEW RELEASE: OST in English
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina´s Train to Samarkand in Romania
MEMORIAL International awarded the 2021 JAN MICHALSKI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
RIP Marietta Chudakova (1937-2021)
Yakhina's novel named the best translated novel of the 2021 in France
NEW RELEASE: Yakhina's Children of the Volga in Serbia
NEW RELEASE: Buida's STALEN in France
NEW RELEASE: Shevelev's NOT RUSSIAN in France

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God of Rain, a novel by Maya Kucherskaya (2006)

Rights sold: Croatia - Zagrebacka naklada, Russia - AST

Student Booker Prize (2007)

God of Rain is a short novel, dynamically plotted and with none of the excesses we have come to associate with “youth” novels. Quite the opposite, it is the story of Anya, a nice, well-educated young woman, who graduates from college as promising young intellectual. She starts her philological studies in Moscow University, but falls into a deep depression, and converts to active Orthodoxy. Her conversion leaves her firmly determined to go to live in a monastery. But instead she falls in love with her spiritual father and ultimately emigrates to Canada. Throughout all of this, she remains a virgin and a profound spiritual seeker.

 In this novel we have a fresh view on the involvement of the young people in the new Orthodox wave that seems to be overflowing in Russia...

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Harbin Moths, a novel by Andrei Ivanov (2013)

Rights sold: Estonia - VARRAK, Russia - AST

Winner of the 2014 NOS Literature Award

Andrei Ivanov’s ‘Harbin Moths’ is a bewitching novel about Russians living in Estonia in the period between the World Wars, and about their resting point, Tallinn, or Revel as it was known Russian-style. The central character, artist and art photographer Boris Rebrov is a refugee who as a seventeen year old retreated with Yudenich’s North-western Army from Russia to Estonia. On the journey – somewhere in Estonia’s border regions – his parents and little sister die from typhus, the memory of which haunts him. As a photographer Rebrov tries to capture places of former happiness which have been forever lost, he projects his lost hometown of St. Petersburg on to Tallinn, and at the same time catches, as if intentionally, moments which weren’t intended to last - dreams not the truth; spaces...

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