The Gray House
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| Author | Mariam Petrosyan |
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| Original title | Дом, в котором... |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | magic realism |
| Published | 2009 |
| Publisher | Gayatri |
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| ISBN | 1503942813 |
The Gray House (Russian: «Дом, в котором...», literally: The House, In Which...) is the first novel of Armenian writer Mariam Petrosyan. Written in Russian, it, tells of a boarding school for disabled children and was published in Russian in 2009, becoming a bestseller. The novel was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in 2010 and received several awards and nominations, among them the 2009 Russian Prize for the best book in Russian by an author living abroad.
English version
The worldwide English edition of The Gray House came out on 25 April 2017, from AmazonCrossing;[1] it made the shortlist for the 2018 Read Russia Prize.[2].
Excerpts from the novel (in English translation by Andrew Bromfield[3]) were narrated by Stephen Fry in the film Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin.[4]
Translations
The book has been also translated into a number of language including (in chronological order):
- Italian as La casa del tempo sospeso (2011)
- Hungarian as Abban a házban (2012)
- Polish as Dom, w którym... (2013)
- Spanish as La casa de los otros (2015)
- French as La Maison dans laquelle (2016)
- Czech as Dům, ve kterém (2016)
- Macedonian as Домот во кој... (2016)
In addition, selling rights for Danish, Latvian and Norwegian translations were also announced by Petrosyan's literary agency.[5]