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TOLL FREE: (877) 843-6843 FAX ORDERS: (888) 562-9924 FAX: (212) 414-0939 Minimum order: $100 retail value E-MAIL: [email protected] [email protected] catalog and cover design: DAVID SCHORR WEB: www.otherpress.com Table of ConT enT s: FALL 2013 fronTlisT THREE BY AT IQ RAHIMI Atiq Rahimi ............................................................... 2–3 THE DEEP WHATSIS Peter Mattei ....................................................................... 4–5 LOVE AND L A MENT John Milliken Thompson ........................................................ 6–7 THE H YPOT HET ICAL GIRL Elizabeth Cohen ....................................................... 8–9 DAYS IN T HE H IST ORY OF SILENCE Merethe Lindstrøm ............................... 10–11 THE P ROFESSOR OF TRUTH James Robertson ............................................... 12–13 THE FAITHFUL SCRIBE Shahan Mufti ............................................................ 14–15 THE ELIXIR OF I MMORTALITY Gabi Gleichmann ......................................... 16–17 SELF-HEL P M ESSIAH Steven Watts .................................................................. 18–19 A LL R USSIA NS LOVE B IRCH TREES Olga Grjasnowa .................................... 20–21 A WELL-TEMPERED HEART Jan-Philipp Sendker ............................................. 22–23 A TRUE N OVEL Minae Mizumura ......................................................................24–25 THE ELEPHANT Keepers’ C HILDREN Peter Høeg ............................................. 26 HOW MUCH I S E NOUG H? Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky .................................. 27 baCklisT R ECENTLY P UBL ISHED ............................................................................... 28–29 SEL ECTED BAC KLIST .................................................................................. 30–31 INTERNATIONAL PUBL ISHERS ........................................................................ 32 feaTured on T he C over.................................................................................. 32 righT s guide ............................................................................. Inside back cover disTribuTion.............................................................................. Inside back cover 1 PRAISE FOR THE PATIENCE STONE: “ In spare, unflinching prose, Atiq Rahimi gives us Afghanistan’s terrible legacy in the story of one woman’s suffering. Anyone seeking to understand why Afghanistan is difficult and what decades of violence have done to its people should read this book. Rahimi is a superb guide to a hard and complex land.” —AMBA SSA DOR RYA N CROCKER former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan “ The Patience Stone is a deceptively simple book, written in a spare, poetic style. But it is a rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war. It is without © Hélène Bamberger/Opale doubt an important and courageous book.” —KHALED H OSSEINI Atiq Rahimi was born in Afghanistan in author of The Kite Runner 1962, and fled to France in 1984. There he “ The Patience Stone is perfectly written: spare, close to the bone, has become renowned as a maker of docu- sometimes bloody, with a constant echo, like a single mistake that repeats mentary and feature films, and as a writer. itself over and over and over.” —LOS A NGELES T IMES The film of his novelEarth and Ashes was in the Official Selection at Cannes in 2004 and has won a number of prizes. A Thousand PRAISE FOR EARTH AND ASHES: Rooms of Dream and Fear has also been adapted for the screen. His adaptation of “ It has the feel of a book of great antiquity and authority; you could The Patience Stone, which he co-wrote and more readily level the Afghan mountains than damage the dreaming directed, was also recently made into a fea- culture that Earth and Ashes both embodies and silently trusts.” ture film. Since 2001 Rahimi has returned to —LONDON T IMES Afghanistan to set up a Writers’ House in Kabul and to offer support and training to young Afghan writers and filmmakers. His PRAISE FOR A THOUSAND ROOMS OF DREAM AND FEAR: new novel, A Curse on Dostoevsky is forth- “ The language has the rhythm of a Sufi prayer; the novel offers an insight coming from Other Press. He lives in Paris. into the deepest fears of the people of Afghanistan.” —LOS A NGELES T IMES “ That sense of losing one’s identity, of being subsumed by a greater, if illogical, power is a key theme in Atiq Rahimi’s taut, layered novel… A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear is the intimate narrative… of an entire desperate, anguished country.” —WASHING TON P OST 2 atiq rahimi Three bY aTi Q rahiMi EARTH AND ASHES/A THOUSAND ROOMS OF DREAM AND FEAR/THE PATIENCE STONE Three short novels—including Prix Goncourt–winning The Patience “In spare, unflinching prose, Atiq Rahimi gives us Afghanistan’s terrible legacy in the story of one woman’s suffering. Anyone seeking to understand why Afghanistan is difficult and what decades of violence have done to its people should read this book. Rahimi is a superb guide to a hard and complex land.” Stone —that convey years of Afghan history, heartache, and hope. —AMBASSADOR RYAN CROCKER, former U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador to Pakistan,