The Gray House

2009 novel by Mariam Petrosyan

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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 was 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]