Letterbook
Pismovnik
Novel
412 pp
AST, Moscow

Rights represented: The World with the exception of World English (Seamus Murphy Agency) and German rights

Rights sold to:

• World English Quercus Editions UK via Seamus Murphy Agency
• Japan Shinchosha
• Spain Lumen / Random House Mondadori
• Nethelands Querido
• France Noir sur blanc
• Finland WSOY
• Norway Oktober
• Sweden Ersatz
• Serbia Paideia
• Czech Republic Vìtrné mlýny
• Lithuania Vaga
• Latvia Jumava
• Bulgaria Fakel
• Estonia Varrak
• Hungary Cartaphilus
• Arabic Arab Scientific Publishers
• Faroe Islands Sprotin
• Denmark: Batzer & Co
• Germany DVA

Option publishers:

• China: People’s Literature, Peking
• Greece: Metaichmio

Awards:

The Big Book Award 2011

This new novel by Mihaial Shishkin is deceivinglyy simple. A man. A woman. Their love letters. A summer house, the first love. Vladimir – Vovka-carrot-top and Alexandra – Sashka; he goes to war, she stays at home, living an ordinarly life. Two people writing each other just about everything - their childhood, families, trifles of life, joys and sorrows – what could be more normal? Until we realise that things are not as simple as they seem.

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