German rights to Debra Dean’s first novel THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD, in which the siege of Leningrad during World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the memory of an elderly Russian woman, once a young docent at the Hermitage, but who now lives with family in Seattle and suffers from Alzheimer’s, to Doris Janhsen and Annette Weber at Droemer Knaur, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Jacqueline LeDonne on behalf of Marly Rusoff & Associates.
