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Mario Lima Frédéric Zwicker THE WALLS OF PORTO 6 RADOST 18

Special Highlight Recent Backlist 19 Andreas Kilcher (Ed.) FRANZ KAFKA: Representations 24 THE DRAWINGS 7

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Israel Ron Leshem WHEN WE WERE BEAUTIFUL 10

Dror A. Mishani CONVICTION 11

Abraham B. Yehoshua THE ONLY DAUGHTER 13

Ohad Hemo UNDER THE SURFACE 14

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“There is no comparable “No one has such a distinctive literary substance and elegant linguistic signature as so addictive in contemporary Madame Nielsen. Her writing style literature.” is as ruthlessly self-exposing as it is —ZDF, Das Literarische Quartett radical.“ —Weekendavisen love ofeveryday life. hard, even impossibleitisto transform thisstateinto acalm,lasting love; atale of wildinfatuation, this magical state of mind,andhow of and by death to finally and it, with live to attempt the tolove, in ends intheirseparation. in search of a higher order, takes on self-destructive features and closed, backs turned. His urge to live under ever more rigid rules, his writing. The couple lives in totally different rhythms. Doors are cannot overcome. The husbandwithdraws anddedicates himselfto glass and even breathing the same air out ofeach other’s mouths. arable. Always reading the same book, drinking out of the same We learn how theydown an apartment. fell in love and were insep saving. inParis. Everything elsewasnotworth apartment friend’s a in caused he fire raging a from saved protagonist the A sentence from aburned butsaved manuscript. The onlything Lamento Original title Madame Nielsen LAMENTO A lament on love in three parts, from the first fire of falling of fire first the from parts, three in love on lament A But mastering everyday life turns out to be a challenge they burn fire a watches couple a scene, opening novel’s the In whyshouldtheyOtherwise bekilled? You onlykillwho you love. Everyone elseisindifferent.

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- Madame Madame Nielsen. sion followed by (1963–2001) – A Biography published in2001, Beck-Nielsen Claus of declared the death the artist and “Scandinavian autofiction” biographism”„performative literary ofA pioneer works. numerous of she is the author in 1963 in Aalborg, Denmark, Born as Claus Beck-Nielsen teuse – and multi-gendered. enactor,ry composer, chan performer,artist, histo world Nielsen Madame —Politiken written.”derfully Lamento two previous novels everyday. Like the couldn’t the survive falling-in-love, which elegy aboutthegrand love withabeautiful novel-trilogy about Nielsen closesher catastrophe. Madame Chernobyl-like ”Falling inlove isa so far. translated into nine languages 2018. Her work has been in English by Open Letter in Germany and was published a greatbecame in success Prize and The Nordic Council Literature our Nation ters with The Great Authors of and continues to work as The Endless Summer Summer Endless The was nominated for for nominated was Claus Beck-Nielsen Beck-Nielsen Claus ismostwon The Suicide Mis is a novelist, My Encoun

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4 Denmark tive flowsperfectly alltheway to itsharrowing conclusion. she may be too late... over.her pushes rescue,terrified toher swims Noa runs, Noa And precipice overlooking a lake. Elija loses her balance and Loth gently temper and Elija runs off. The two ofthem end up on the edge of a each daughter. Asthey descend and darkness falls, Loth loses her “Elija’s song”,asongmade up by theirfatherwith one verse for resentment. parents, who tended to onElija, and focus she still harbours this and body. Asachild,Lothfelt overlooked andneglectedby her message emerges gradually, as does her obsession with her looks tent of her involvement with them and adoption of their Neo-Nazi she alsoprovides sexual assistanceto thedisabled. an affair withguyfrom the executive suite. He doesn’t know that and soul-destroying job in a canteen of an office building. She has owl from acafé they stop by alongtheway. burdensome forthem.Asifto prove thispoint,Elijastealsastuffed sisters’ accountsthatshecouldbedisruptive asachild,whichwas with her friend Mio and loves being on stage. We learn through her talk, welearnaboutthesisters’very different lives. and is a route they used to take with their father. Asthey walkand to apeak. The hike has been arranged by Loth,the youngest sister, Three estranged sisters reunite for a walk across a moor and up Elijas Lied Original title Amanda Lasker-Berlin ELIJA’S SONG Amanda Lasker-Berlin’s writing is highly lyrical and her narra As evening approaches, the sisters reach the peak and sing Loth is living in of nationalist a community activists: the ex Noa, the middle sister, is a graduate who works in a badly paid Elija lives in assisted housing, has an intimate relationship

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- - ELIJA’S SONG is her first novel. awards for emerging writers. plays and prose won several temberg in Ludwigsburg. Her Baden-Würt Performing Arts of attheAcademy studying versity in Weimar and is now fine art from the Bauhaus Uni of eighteen.Shegraduated in staged her first play at the age born in Essen in 1994 and Amanda Lasker-Berlin —Buchkultur walk onatightrope.” soon becomesatragic asa hike What starts in alltheirphysicality. illusioned characters politically lostanddis ofinjured,“The portray —MDR with.“ force to bereckoned er-Berlin isaliterary to say. Amanda Lask she hassomething ispoliticaland “Her art —Deutschlandfunk Kultur tive language.” characters andsensi with itsmulti-layered novel, whichconvinces “A courageous debut —hr2 Kultur more.” to hear, seeorread whom wewouldlike author andplaywright, vincing debutfrom an con “Remarkable. The

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5 Germany Portugal lovers. Portugal and customs of the port city. an absolute must for crime fiction and colour. As in crime novel with a ceeded lot in of local writing a gripping Portugal curs, Fonseca hasto actquickly… something. And everyone wants justice. When another murder oc know to seems everyone again, conflicts old up stirs case the for investigating. starts The residents of the Bairro are not idle either, house. They are twofemale murder victims,andthehomicidesquad fire, the fire brigade finds two skeletons walled up in an old, empty the narrow of Porto, and winding Bairro da Sé. After a oldest part Guilt hasnostatuteoflimitations. Die Mauernvon Porto Original title Mario Lima OF PORTO THE WALLS With THE WALLS OF PORTO, MarioLimahasonceagainsuc A new case leads Inspector Fonseca and his team to the

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KAFKA‘S

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Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the greatest writers of FRANZ KAFKA: the 20th century. A significant part of his literary oeuvre was saved by his friend Max Brod, THE DRAWINGS who opposed Kafka’s wish that his estate, including his drawings, be burned after his Edited by Andreas Kilcher death. Brod’s recently opened estate is also the source of with the collaboration of Pavel Kafka’s newly discovered Schmidt. drawings. Andreas Kilcher is Professor With essays by Judith Butler of Literature and Cultural Stud- ies at ETH Zurich. He has held and Andreas Kilcher visiting professorships at He- brew University, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Princeton University and Stanford Uni- versity. He has published wide- ly on Kafka and German-Jew- ish literature. Original publisher C.H.Beck Verlag, World English Yale UP Fall 2021 France Cahiers dessinés Italy Adelphi ca. 336 pages, Spain Galaxia Gutenberg 240 colour illustrations, Netherlands Athenaeum 30,000 words Poland Wydawnictwo Literackie

It was not until 2019 that over 100 drawings by Franz Kafka emerged, which had been kept under lock and key in a Zurich bank safe for decades: a sensation. For until then, only a few drawings by the world-famous writer were known. Kafka’s artistic ambitions and his extraordinary talent can only be appreciated with the new discov- ery. They are pictures of almost irresistible appeal. Here they are Special Highlight published for the first time, together with the already known sheets. Especially in his early years, between 1902 and 1907, Kafka drew intensively. A complete booklet of drawings has now come to light alongside dozens of individual sheets. These are fragile, levitat- ing and at the same time enigmatically fascinating figures that one encounters on these pages: human figures, but also human-animal hybrids, some of which are rendered only with a few skilful strokes. Kafka’s drawings veer from the realistic to the fantastic, to the grotesque, sometimes even uncanny, some seem carnivalesque or caricaturistically exaggerated. In any case, they make a second Kafka visible alongside the writer. In this volume, with its brilliant reproductions and illuminating explanations, he can be discovered in full for the first time.

Liepman Agency ― International Rights Spring 2021 8 coming itandaboutthepoweroftruelove. went into thatill-fatedtarblackbarnhehadnobusinessbeingin. childhood, especially that Saturday afternoon on the island when he who isalsoincriminated. The magazine story drives himto relive his of his troubled marriagewith the vivacious and adventurous Fran, inAmsterdam andNewYork,an artist andare given aprobing view strophic event. It is the artist’s life sentence. We see him living as are deeplyshocked. No one in his circle knew about this; his friends and acquaintances of his obsessivehe committed asayounga crime work: teenager. cle ofhis when fame a magazine cover story exposes the source retrospective inAmsterdam’s StedelijkMuseum.Heisatthepinna At the age of fifty-nine celebrated artist Maris Coppoolse is given a 496 pages Atlas Contact,2019 Original publisher Schuur Zwarte Original title Oek de Jong BLACK BARN BLACK BARN is a novelBLACK about living with traumaand over This isthestory ofalife marked forever by asingle cata

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Literature the DutchFoundation for Translation by support Literature Prize fortheLibris Shortlisted Literature Prize 2020 Winner oftheBoekenbon copies sold Bestseller with100’000 - - - navian andseveral other lan into German, French, Scandi erary pricesand is translated Owl in Belgium and other lit land, he received the Golden Libris Literature Prize in Hol inated multiple times for the bestselling novels were nom dred thousand copies. His have sold more than six hun depth. His chological books great stylistic power and psy His œuvre is characterized by contemporary authors. Dutch as one of the most important internationally acknowledged Oek deJong guages —Trouw novel.” ling andpenetrating tangible. …acompel rendered soclearand has anobsessionbeen andsoul.Rarely heart server, onthe expert dramatist, keen ob narrator, passionate best: asapowerful “Oek deJongathis —NRC Handelsblad confidence andease.” into hisstory with and ableto draw you needs to prove himself work whonolonger “Here isawriterat

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9 Netherlands of anocean of memories. ment and revolution, casting the reader across the stormywaves spiring, beautiful moments oflonging and compassion, estrange another person.Itis a deep dive throughhero’s our eyes to awe-in rare oflosingourselves andrediscovering opportunity past–in our Ron Leshem’s latest novel, the sniper’s point of viewto the eye of the stormin the Amazon; strip to the celebrations of the Day ofthe Dead in Cambodia; from in themilitary, whoteachhimhowto stop fearing death. teaches him howto stop fearing life; and with his brothers-in-arms he tooworries withNoam,thebrother much; henever had,who Daniel’s life story: hisrelationship withhismother, who worriesthat by adeadbody, abutterflyfarmerandwanderingbutcher. fingers, he finds himself traversing a divided country, accompanied him with this miraculous and terrifying possibility, slips through his of the jungle. And when Nora,riverbank in the heart who presents questions come to Daniel in the most unexpected of places, on a our past? Who and what point in time would we return to? These washed away by theriver oftime. water, the friendship and the love, especially the love –has been the pain, butalso the golden shores and the scent of salt on the that happened – the loss and the estrangement, the betrayal and We will never beas beautiful as we oncewere, becauseeverything Yafim Kemo Shehayanu Original title Ron Leshem BEAUTIFUL WHEN WE WERE From the eternal childhood in the lost paradise of the Gaza This surreal journey, sensual and macabre, unfoldsalongside relive to sacrifice we would what do, to willing we are What

Dvir, 2020 Kinneret-Zmora Bitan, Original publisher (Noa Manheim, Publisher). When We Were Beautiful –Makor Rishon for air.” creation andnever wantto comeup will sinkintheoceanofLeshem’s thor, dramatic andastonishing. You empathy, writtenby aconfidentau nificant workofliterature. Richwith authenticity andtheresult isasig rare abilityto writewithbreathtaking “An exquisite novel. Leshemhasthe Liepman Agency―International RightsSpring 2021

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- - - - Secker, Beaufort International publishers of Sapir Prize. them the prestigious annual raeli literary awards, among has won someofthe top Is based on his adaptation. He Award nominated feature film Beaufort cult debut and anti-war novel international bestseller and series best the known for television producer, and writer film and an Israeli-American television Ron Leshem ThinKingdom, ThinKingdom, Dulnyouk Publishing, Dutch tions du Seuil, German Russian Bico de Pena, Leda, –Kan TarbutRadio literary courage. longtimefor a very who have beenwaiting to theeyes ofthose prose restore aglimmer Leshem’s young, vibrant ideas inthenovel and out offear. Boththe the oneauthorsavoid most sensitive terrain, bravely entersour that reverberates and A fascinatingnovel –Walla small feat. the world–whichisno to say aboutIsrael and complete, withmore than “A amore mature work Brazil Beaufort Euphoria English (US) Meulenhoff, Kinneret Zmora Bitan Rowohlt, : and the Academy English (UK) Record, , bornin 1976, is

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“Dror Mishani is the indisputable spiritual heir of Georges Simenon.” –Le Monde

“Dror Mishani has reached the world league of crime fiction.” —Die Zeit

“Mishani has a superior “Mishani writes with gift for psychological “One of the greatest profound originality.” suspense.” writers in the genre.” —Henning Mankell —Publishers Weekly —Politiken ©Jacquard &Loison/Opale ©Jacquard

CONVICTION confrontation withIsrael’s mostsecret andsacred myths. men inthecountry,most powerful who technically don’t even exist. darkest secrets –andthreatening to putAvraham tions spiral into a maze of violence and deception, leading to Israel’s other. Soonheunderstandsdidawrong choice,asbothinvestiga es ofdomesticviolence,isindifferent to theone,andseducedby the danger? Can hebeaMossadagentlike hisdaughterclaims?Andishein and at least two names. showed he had been using a fake passport disappeared from a beach-hotel near Tel-Aviv, andaquickinquiry investigation appeared stranger andmore intriguing:aSwisstourist woman who left it there is captured after a few hours. The second almost banal:anewbornisfoundinbagoutsidehospitalandthe Both investigations began on the same day. One seemed domestic, 272 pages Achuzat Bayit, 2021 Original publisher Emuna Original title Dror A.Mishani CONVICTION is a brilliant political thriller, and a witty literary Inspector Avraham Avraham, wishing to outgrow his usual cas

French German English (UK) Gallimard translator) —Markus Lemke (Mishani’s German another triumph.” and emotionallyinvolving. Itisyet unbearably tensestory, boththrilling again, Mishanidelivers analmost ful standalonenovel, the fast-paced,highlysuspense the previous Avraham casesand synthesis oftheemotionality “CONVICTION isasuccessful Diogenes Liepman Agency―International RightsSpring 2021 Riverrun

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crime novelcrime translated to Beck award for best Martin clière andwontheprestigious Grand PrixdeLittérature Poli national dagger award and the the CWAfor inter shortlisted 20 languages. They were translatedwas into more than Man WhoWanted to Know) Possibility ofViolence series ( bestselling Inspector Avraham Hisfiction. crime of history scholar, specializing in the screenwriter and literary tional bestselling crime writer, Dror A. Mishani –Le Monde Georges Simenon.” spiritual heirof the indisputable “Dror Mishaniis —Die Zeit league ofcrimefiction” reached the world “Dror Mishanihas in Fiction Translation Dagger. longlisted thefor CWA Crime Mystère de la Critique and is bestseller, received the Prix againaninternationalwas His stand alone thriller were released in 2018/2019. the Inspector Avraham series an Israeli series based on TV cine movie (Fleuve Noire) and de Points. A successful French du meilleur Polar de lecteurs Swedish and the Grand Prix The Missing File is an interna

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12 Israel acters. rejoices in celebrating the turmoils he creates for his beloved char thehumour cages of identity and belonging and with ingenuity where thousands ofyears agothedivinebaby wasborn. another God, butrather a brother, perhaps in the same distant land Christianity in the image of aHolySpirit that doesn’t to give birth coming spring. won’t live long enough to attend her Bat Mitzvah, scheduled for the her beloved father’s serious illness raises the possibility that he her teachers included, cannotremedy herloneliness. Moreover, religious content. Christian with filled play a in participating from nonetheless her and hospitalized father, who doesn’t Jewish rituals, forbids observe donna, Mother ofGod,inherschool’s Christmasplay. Butherill only grandchild ofhermother’s parents, herCatholicgrandparents. runs the family’s law firm together with his son. But she is also the receiving love and praise from herJewish grandfather Sergio, who time inVenice. ry, in the two months between the Christmas season and Carnival Italy,The story takes place in northern at the end of the 20 avaiable English translation Habat Hayechida Original title Novella Abraham B. Yehoshua DAUGHTER THE ONLY Once again, A.B. Yehoshua is challenging masterly and with Rachele’s crisis arouses a fantasy that blends Judaism and The love and affection that surround Rachele from all sides, Rachele is frustrated: she has been chosen to play the Ma family, affluent an of child only the is Rachele 12-year-old

165 pages 2021 Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Original publisher

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- - - - Abraham B. Yehoshua’s an authorofNobelreach. to Faulkner William andnamed has hoshua been compared and the Dan David Prize. Ye zionale “Antonio Feltrinelli” livre étranger, Premio Interna étranger, le Prix du meilleur most recently the prix Médicis merous internationalawards, languages and received nu lated into more than twenty en ofnovels, all ofthem trans renown. He wrote over adoz tablished his international Lover Therapist, Jerusalem — RachelParan, Narrative masks.” of shedding identity and pecially thesearch for relationships, andes religion, parent-child his wonderoftheworld: Yehoshua expresses passing judgment,A.B. “Gently hinting,without of Law, University ofHaifa —Shulamit Almog,Professor power.” freedom, opennessand a girlwhopersonifies etic representation of novel, isaperfect po protagonist ofthe acter ofRachele,the experience, thechar of arare reading the sheerexcitement many reasons. Beyond “A uniquebook,for , published in 1977, es

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13 Israel is too late. an urgent wake up call to rescue the two-state solution before it perspective beyond the ubiquitous clichés. At the same time it is imminent deathoftheidea oftwostates. the future; and primarily onto the greatest threat and folly of all: the – ontodespair and the hope; onto the past and more importantly the onto tensions; internal the onto Israel; with conflict the onto sketches apicture ofthePalestinian societytoday thatprojects foot on. Through extraordinary conversations and encounters, he Bank. He feels at home in places that most Israelis have never set thority, between Tel Aviv and the cities and villages of the West between Israel been and going the back and Palestinianforth Au these are only some of the characters filling the pages of this book. and was stopped at the last moment, today holding his own baby; youth set out for an Israeli checkpoint wearing an explosive belt Israelis their age onthe other side of the fence; amanwhoin his young Gazans using social networks to share their trauma with believe in the prophecy that Israel will be erased in the year 2022; who activists Hamas fire; of barrage endless an under cemetery Fugitives from the Balatarefugee campgatheringinanabandoned Pney Hashetach Original title Palestinian Territoriesthe from An Insider Reportage Ohad Hemo SURFACE UNDER THE A powerful, colourful and intimate portrait offering and intimate portrait colourful a unique A powerful, For the past two decades, Israeli journalist Ohad Hemo has

296 pages Keter, 2020 Original publisher — history ofthe20 difficult andpainfulconflictsinthe realistic solutionto oneofthemost think honestlyaboutapossibleand ing bookforanyone whowantsto and courageous way. Afascinat He gainstheirtrustinhishumane the Palestinians couldbeheard. places inorder thatthevoice of he didnotshyaway from dangerous and profound For years, reporters. “Ohad Hemoisoneofthebravest A.B. Yehoshua Liepman Agency―International RightsSpring 2021

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- - the suicide attacks, through from the second Intifada and this fromperiod –up close covered events the major of Palestinian territories, hehas journalists traveling to the years. One of the few Israeli West Bank for nearly twenty beat in the Gaza and Strip the been covering the Palestinian the Hebrew University and has Middle Eastern Studies from in Israel. He holds an M.A. in 12, the most viewed channel tinian at affairs Israel Channel onPales nalist and reporter Hemo Ohad work. Cutting Edge Award forhis movies. He received the 2017 directed several television and the Middle East, and has and Arab children on Islam ed television shows for Jewish During his career he has host operations in the Gaza Strip. to Israel’s three major military Gaza disengagement, and up Arafatthe deathof andthe — HA’ARETZ Palestinians.” of anewgeneration of lays outtheworldviews who intelligent observer “A and diligentreporter —Reuven Rivlin the other.” and demonicimagesof beyond preconceptions allowing usto see tinian neighbourhoods, rates usfrom thePales the iron wallthatsepa window to seethrough from a theinsidecarves “Ohad Hemo’s view

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14 Israel a NewRomanianWave take onPlato’s cave. man hisfatherwas. narrator, and Victorwill have to imagine himself for what kind of pregnant when he left Romania. Stefan, however, is an unreliable was Oksana that knew father his if out find to like also would He asks him to write down all that he can remember about his father. front ofMuzica,thecity’s biggestrecord store. in dead shot is he follows that chaos the In headquarters. his fled has Ceauşescu after just secretly, Bucharest to returns he 1989, authorities but can emigrate to Canada. However, in December across the Danube and defects. He is caught by the Yugoslavian pensive anddangerous. is ex is afraid is illegal, and illegal abortion to tell Paul; abortion and there they have the time of their lives. Oksana is pregnant but the depot the interiorofahome. They callit ‘The Golden Burrow’ the guitar). Using stage furniture and props, Oksana builds inside and his best-friend Stefan (a first-year high school student who plays with his girlfriend Oksana (a waitress who just finished high school) a theatre keeps and props. its scenery He spends all his time there is expelled and ends up as the guard of a forgotten depot in which year philosophy student, wants to play the drums in a rock band but first- Ceauşescu’sa Nicolae Paul, years.1988. darkestBucharest, Vizuina DeAur Original title Cătălin Partenie BURROW GOLDEN A philosophical, charming and cinematic tragicomedy –like Almost 30 years later, Paul’s son Victor contacts Stefan and In April1989, without telling anything to anyone, Paul swims

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- novel theatrical adaptationofthe —Peter Kerek, director ofthe ship, love.” stage: freedom, friend singingonthe start great characters will tain; openthem,and words are like acur “This isanovel whose London sity of the Arts, Professor of Theatre, Univer —Vladimir Mirodan, Emeritus of hardship.” human beingsintimes have as inoursurvival andmusiccan er art of theredeeming pow foundly affecting story “A bitter-sweet,pro tional Contest and has been at theFrank Interna McCourt earned an Honorable Mention story His short Plato’s Myths (Oxford’s World and Classics) editor of Plato. ada and Europe, and is the Oxford. HehastaughtinCan also a graduate student at versity ofGlasgow, and was Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Uni Bucharest. He completed he of PoliticalSchool Studies in teaching at the National an-Canadian philosopher, Cătălin Partenie ROW ishisfirstnovel. Review. THE GOLDEN BUR published in The Southampton (Cambridge UP). UP). (Cambridge

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