Fiction BOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2013 • Volume 23, Number 1
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ROUTE TO: __________________________________ __________________________________ PENGUIN GROUP (USA) __________________________________ Advance Publication Newsletter For Library Managers in Acquisitions and Collection Development Fiction BOOKS DUE: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL 2013 • VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 A Tale for the TIME BEING RAGE Is BacK THE OFFIce of MercY RUTH OZEKI Adam MANSBACH ARIEL DjaNIKIAN In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there’s only “A gutsy act of cultural nostalgia, full of longing for a “If you think a future world without suffering would one escape from her aching loneliness and her class- vanished New York, a chaotic, colorful city full of graf- be a good thing, Ariel Djanikian will convince you to mates’ bullying. But first, she plans to document the fiti and guerilla art. Adam Mansbach is a fearless, reconsider in her impressive debut, The Office of life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun. funny, and thoroughly engaging writer.”—Tom Per- Mercy. Gripping, well plotted, and boasting a fasci- A Viking hardcover rotta, author of Little Children. nating setting, this utterly engrossing tale is March • 432 pp. • 978-0-670-02663-0 • $27.95 A Viking hardcover thoughtful and surprising.”—Deborah Harkness, Also available as a Penguin Audiobook January • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-02612-8 • $26.95 author of Shadow of Night and A Discovery of Witches. Digital only, 15.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-160530-1 • $49.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook A Viking hardcover Digital only, 10 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-160525-7 • $39.95 February • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02586-2 • $26.95 Ghana MUst GO TaIYE SElasI WHIte DOG Fell from the SKY THE UnchanGeable A patriarch’s death brings together the family he ElEANOR MORSE Spots of Leopards abandoned years before, begetting a series of betray- Forced to flee apartheid South Africa in 1976 after KRISTOphER JANsma als that no one could have imagined—until, in witnessing the murder of a friend, medical student “Light and airy, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards is Ghana, a new way forward, a new family, begins to Isaac Muthethe is smuggled into Botswana, where a funhouse of a novel about the outsized ambitions emerge. “Taiye Selasi is a young writer of staggering he is hired as a gardener by a young American of authors and the sneaky power of storytelling. gifts and extraordinary sensitivity. Ghana Must Go woman. Kristopher Jansma’s debut is a whimsical round- seems to contain the entire world, and I shall never A Viking hardcover the-world tour that recalls Calvino, Millhauser, and forget it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. January • 368 pp. • 978-0-670-02640-1 • $27.95 The Confidence Man.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of A Penguin Press hardcover Last Night at the Lobster. March • 336 pp. • 978-1-59420-449-4 • $25.95 A Viking hardcover Also available as a Penguin Audiobook FLIMSY LIttle PlastIC MIracles RON CURRIE, JR. March • 272 pp. •978-0-670-02600-5 • $26.95 Digital only, 10.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-160514-1 • $39.95 Also available as a Penguin Audiobook When the protagonist of Ron Currie’s latest novel, Digital only, 9.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-160531-8 • $39.95 Ron Currie, exiles himself to a small Caribbean THE DarK Road island to write a new book about the woman he MA JIAN loves, he decides to fake his death, which turns out Translated by Flora Drew to be the best career move he’s ever made. From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, A Viking hardcover National Book Award a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child February • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-02534-3 • $26.95 Finalist policy told through the story of one rural family on Also available as a Penguin Audiobook the run from its reach. Digital only, 8.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-160526-4 • $29.95 THIS Is How YoU Lose Her A Penguin Press hardcover JUNOT DÍAZ April • 352 pp. • 978-1-59420-502-6 • $25.95 Riverhead Hardcover • 978-1-59448-736-1 3 To order, use your regular supplier or mail the order form provided directly to Penguin GROUP (USA) INC. If form is missing, email [email protected] Here and Now THE HOUSE at the A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea letters 2008–2011 END of Hope Street DINA NAYERI PAUL AUSTER AND J. M. COETZEE MENNA VAN PRaaG “Pure magic: lyrical, captivating, funny, and heart- An intimate and often amusing portrait of two great “An enchanting novel, filled with a charming cast of breaking. Entering the world of the intriguing Saba writers—a reflection of two sharp intellects whose characters. Fans of Sarah Addison Allen will be delighted Hafezi and her friends in a seaside village in north- pleasure in each other’s friendship is apparent on to discover the house at the end of Hope Street, a ern Iran, I lost my heart.”—Jean Kwok, author of every page. magical place where ninety-nine days is just long Girl in Translation. A Viking hardcover enough to change a life.”—Erica Bauermeister, author A Riverhead hardcover March • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02666-1 • $27.95 of The School of Essential Ingredients. February • 432 pp. • 978-1-59448-704-0 • $26.95 A Pamela Dorman hardcover Honor April • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-78463-9 • $25.95 A Map of TUlsa eliF ShaFak BENjamIN LYTal The internationally bestselling Turkish author pres- CITY of DarK MAGIC “A remarkable novel. Benjamin Lytal has written a ents a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunder- MagnuS FlyTe glorious and exquisitely crafted work of art, one that standings that follows the destinies of twin sisters When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer poignantly brings to life all the joy and heartbreak of born in a Kurdish village. job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manu- youth with compassion, grace, and wisdom.”— A Viking hardcover scripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That March • 352 pp. • 978-0-670-78483-7 • $26.95 about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is Heaven Bears. warned, and it is steeped in blood. A Penguin paperback original April • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-242259-5 • $15.00 ArtfUL A Penguin paperback original ALI SMITH December • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-312268-5 • $16.00 In her 2010 Weidenfeld lectures at Oxford, the Also available as a Penguin Audiobook THE PAInted GIRLS acclaimed novelist’s heady powers as a fiction writer Digital only, 12.5 hours • Unabridged • 978-1-10-160496-0 • $39.95 CaTHY MARIE BUChaNAN harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader In a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and soci- and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that There Once LIVed A GIrl Who etal change in late-19th-century Paris, two remark- life and art are never separate. SedUced Her SIster’S HUsband, able sisters are rendered uniquely vulnerable to the A Penguin Press hardcover and HE HanGed HImself darker impulses of “civilized society.” January • 256 pp. • 978-1-59420-486-9 • $25.95 love Stories A Riverhead hardcover LUdmIlla PETRUSHEVSKAYA January • 368 pp. • 978-1-59448-624-1 • $27.95 THE HoneY THIEF Translated by Anna Summers najaF Mazari Here are attempts at human connection, both THE MINIatUre WIfe Written with Robert Hillman depraved and sublime, by people in all stages of life: and other Stories “The wisdom and enchantment of thousands of years from one-night stands in communal apartments to MANUEL GONZalES are spun together in this vivid, beautifully written poignantly awkward couplings, rendered with lurid “This book has everything you could ask for in a col- book. The author brings one tribe in Afghanistan into violence and surprising tenderness. lection, and even things you hadn’t thought to ask your heart as well as your mind....A true joy to read.” A Penguin paperback original for, but secretly wanted: unicorns, mobsters, swamp —Deborah Rodriguez, author of Kabul Beauty School. February • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00 monsters, and werewolves. Manuel Gonzales weaves A Viking hardcover the supernatural into the lives of everyday citizens, April • 304 pp. • 978-0-670-02648-7 • $26.95 THE MemorY of LOVE from anthropologists to airline passengers, and the LINda OlssON result is pure magic mixed with humor and deep humanity.”—Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief. ME Before YoU After 15 years of living a quiet life on the rugged JOJO MOYES coast of New Zealand, Marion Flint has a chance A Riverhead hardcover February • 432 pp. • 978-1-59448-604-3 • $26.95 “Moyes has written the perfect modern love story.... meeting with a young, damaged boy who encourages Louisa Clark is everywoman, the challenges she faces her to try to make sense of her past. “The emotional belong in small and large ways, to all of us, and in the weather of the story is changeable and dramatic.... end, you will be astonished at what you feel, and what The storytelling...is most seductive, with the right New York Times you hope for when you are forced to face the possibil- balance between the disclosure and holding back of ity of your own dreams. It’s that good. Read it now.”— information to keep us reading to the end—appreci- Best Books of 2012 Adriana Trigiani, author of The Shoemaker’s Wife. ating at every twist a writer delighting in her A Pamela Dorman hardcover craft.”—Sunday Star Times (New Zealand) THE PatrIarch January • 384 pp.