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The Gray House
AuthorMariam Petrosyan
Audio read byScott Merriman
Original titleДом, в котором...
TranslatorYuri Machkasov
LanguageEnglish
Genremagic realism
Published2009
PublisherAmazonCrossing
Published in English
April 25, 2017
Media typePrint (softcover), Kindle book, audiobook
Pages721
ISBN9781503942813

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 a story 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)
  • Bulgarian as Домът, в който... (2018)
  • Ukrainian as Дiм, в якому... (2019)

In addition, selling rights for Latvian translations were also announced by Petrosyan's literary agency.[5]

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