1. A Drink with a Stranger
2. A List of Brides
3. Poor Sinner
4. Out Visiting
5. What a Concert!
6. A Curse
7. Neighbor Women
8. Fortune-Telling and a Dead Man
9. At Zarema's
10. A Patch of Green
11. Hand and Heart
12. A Chat with a Drunkard
13. Wedding
Galleys mailing to all major review outlets as well as alternative
review sources in March 2016
Introduction and blurb requests targeting prominent literary and
cultural figures such as Elif Batuman, Karen Armstrong, Anthony
Marra, Mikhail Shishkin, Svetlana Alexeivich, Julia Ioffe
Russian Embassy in DC and their Consulates in local markets to
sponsor author's public appearances in the US planned for
festivals, bookstores, and universities throughout fall 2017
First serial rights targeting The Paris Review, the New Yorker, The
Guardian, Literal Magazine, Texas Monthly, McSweeney’s, the White
Review; One Story, Guernica, Tin House
Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book
sections
Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social
reading websites
Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed
(@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum)
Promotion in the publisher’s e-newsletters for weeks and months
surrounding release
Promotion at publisher's booth at the Association of Writers and
Writing Programs Conference (AWP), American Library Association
Conference, Modern Languages Association Convention, Texas Book
Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, the American Literary Translators
Association Conference, Book Expo America, Dallas Book Festival,
and Bay Area Book Festival.
Publicity targeting The New Inquiry, The Millions, Full-Stop, The
Nervous Breakdown, HTMLGIANT, Three Percent, The Literary Saloon,
the Quarterly Conversation, and more
Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and
magazines and on their websites, such as Words Without Borders,
Asymptote, World Literature Today, Literary Hub, Granta, The
Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Little Star, The Coffin
Factory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature,
and others
Alisa Ganieva, born in 1985, grew up in Makhachkala, the capital of
the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, wedged between the
Caspian Sea, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan. Her literary debut, the
novella Salaam, Dalgat!, published under a male pseudonym, provoked
contradictory reactions in Russia: astonishment, especially among
young Russians, at this unknown part of their country; and anger
among radical Islamists at this negative portrayal of their
homeland by one of their own. Salaam, Dalgat! won the prestigious
Debut Prize in 2009, and Ganieva revealed her true identity only at
the award ceremony. Ganieva's debut novel, The Mountain and the
Wall, was shortlisted for all three of Russia's major literary
awards, Deep Vellum published it in English in 2015, marking the
first novel ever published in English by a Dagestani author. Bride
and Groom was published in Russia in 2015 and was the runner-up for
Russia's most prestigious literary award, the Russian Booker Prize.
Ganieva's novels have been translated into a dozen languages. She
lives in Moscow, where she works as a cultural journalist and
literary critic.
Dr. Carol Apollonio is Professor of the Practice of Russian at Duke
University. Her most recent literary translations include German
Sadulaev's The Maya Pill (Dalkey Archive, 2014) and Alisa Ganieva's
debut novel, The Mountain and the Wall (Deep Vellum, 2015). In
addition to being an accomplished translator, Dr. Apollonio is also
a scholar specializing in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and
Chekhov and on problems of translation. She is the author of the
monograph Dostoevsky's Secrets (2009), and she has edited volumes
and numerous articles on nineteenth century Russian literature. She
was awarded the Russian Ministry of Culture’s Chekhov Medal in
2010, and she currently serves as President of the North American
Dostoevsky Society.
Longlisted for the Read Russia 2020 Prize
Runner-up for 2015 Russian Booker Prize
"A bold and startling novel." —Viv Groskop, The Guardian
"The book is wonderfully transportive, and while full of
beautifully rendered details of North Caucasian landscapes and
traditional familial connection, it’s set against the unmistakable
backdrop of the post-Soviet world...Though set in the traditional
confines of a largely Muslim North Caucasus, this divide is a
microcosm for a very real wedge between two distinct generations in
Russia today, a wedge that’s become a powerful force in struggles
from music consumption and social media, to what the future of
Russian politics will look like." —Nadia Beard The Calvert
Journal
"Ganieva's writing has a kind of magic.” —Lauren Smart, Dallas
Observer
"Much as they try, [the characters'] individual stories are mere
fodder for the dysfunctional social order built on systemic
corruption and terror." —Olga Zilberbourg, World Literature Today
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