From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The novel “Solar Bones” by Irish writer Mike McCormack received the prestigious literary prize from Goldsmiths University, The Guardian reports . The work consists of one sentence of 220 pages. The book is about middle-aged engineer Marcus Conway from the west of Ireland, who was briefly resurrected on All Souls' Day in November.

New translation of the novel "under a glass cap": Life and death of Sylvia Plates Sylvia Plates. Under a glass cap. M.: AST, 2016. Translation of Suzanne Alcard. A person who opens “under a glass cap” of Sylvia Plates and reading the lines about “summer when they executed Rosenbergs” most likely knows, at least that the author of the novel committed suicide.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" Writer Daniil Kharms with a 95% probability was buried at the Piskarevskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, announced the head of the organizing committee of the Kharms Prize, Alexander Mars, Fontanka reports . According to Mars, this conclusion was reached after two months of “analytical and search work.” “We decided to go the logical route - to find out where people were buried at this time, how their ashes were buried,” explained Alexander Mars.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On November 10, Israeli writer Etgar Keret will give a presentation of his book “Seven Fat Years” at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. The presentation will be led by publisher Borukh Gorin and Linor Goralik, who translated the book into Russian. “Seven Fat Years” is a collection of stories about events that occurred in the seven years between the birth of his son and the death of the writer’s father.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" On Saturday, November 12, readings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” will be held in the Moscow metro, according to the official website of the capital’s mayor. The Sokol electric depot was chosen as the reading site. Chroma key technology will be used for filming. “The subject is placed on a plain background, which can then be replaced with anything.

Brief guide for coastal literature, part II Continuing a review of the Far Eastern literature, at the request of Gorky, writer Vasily Avchenko focused on a single book - the Rock Brinner, published in Vladivostok, describes the epic history of the Brinner family: the julya pirate, the miner Boris and actor Yul. The first plot: Briners and Russian-Japanese War The book of Rock is a family chronicle of the Swiss-Russian kind and at the same time a historical essay.

Excerpt from the novel "Underground Classic" of German literature To the Non/Fiction 2016 exhibition, the New Publishing House releases the novel by Vinfrid Zebald “Saturn Ring” - before that, only one of his artistic book, the novel “Austerlitz”, was published in Russian. Gorky publishes an excerpt from the upcoming publication translated by Ella Wengerova.