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M N Times Oder MODERN TIMES MODERN MODERN “In Modern Times, Cathy Sweeney gives TIMES us fables of the present that are funny, A woman orders a sex doll vertiginous and melancholy.” for her husband’s birthday. —David Hayden MODERN A man makes films without “ Cathy Sweeney’s stories have already a camera. A married couple lives in attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and Cathy Sweeney take turns to sit in an electric Dublin. She studied at this first collection is as marvellous as we could CATHY SWEENEY chair. Cathy Sweeney’s Trinity College and taught have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut.” TIMES wonderfully inventive English at second level for —Kevin Barry debut collection offers many years before turning snapshots of an unsettling, to writing. Her work has “I loved this collection. It vibrates with a glorious strangeness! Magnificently weird, hugely dislocated world. Surprising been published in various entertaining, deeply profound.” “ and uncanny, funny and magazines and journals. Magnificently weird, —Danielle McLaughlin hugely entertaining.” transgressive, these stories Danielle McLaughlin only look like distortions of reality. The Stinging Fly Press, Dublin www.stingingfly.org CATHY SWEENEY “A unique imagination, “Funny, vertiginous a brilliant debut.” and melancholy.” Kevin Barry David Hayden The Stinging Fly Cover Design: Catherine Gaffney Author Photo: Meabh Fitzpatrick RIGHTS GUIDE LONDON 2020 ROGERS, COLERIDGE AND WHITE LTD. 20 Powis Mews London W11 1JN Tel: 020 7221 3717 Fax: 020 7229 9084 www.rcwlitagency.com Twitter: @rcwlitagency Instagram: @rcwliteraryagency FOREIGN RIGHTS Laurence Laluyaux, Stephen Edwards Katharina Volckmer, Tristan Kendrick Sam Coates, Natasia Patel For all foreign rights enquiries please contact: [email protected] CONTENTS Literary Fiction - 4 Commercial Fiction - 27 Non Fiction - 38 Highlights - 62 Prizes - 67 FICTION 4 A WAR OF ONE’S OWN fiction Lin Bai IN ASSOCIATION WITH PENGLUN AT ARCHIPEL PRESS Lin Bai’s autobiographical novel, A WAR OF ONE’S OWN, is a powerful exploration of female sexuality and desire. Hugely influential when first published in China twenty-five years ago, its direct and emotionally honest examination of the female experience gave a voice to women silenced by generations of repression. Born in a small town in rural China during the turbulent 1950s, Duomi Lin is left alone through much of her childhood and adolescence, discovering her sexuality at a young age and developing an obsession with death and childbirth. Almost friendless, with a dead father and emotionally distant mother, Duomi escapes into dreams. and then into writing. Cast adrift, Duomi wanders China searching for meaning in her life. Writing remains her only constant. It is only once the Cultural Revolution ends that Duomi is able to start a new existence as a scriptwriter. However, she still feels strangely isolated, plagued by jealousy and uncertainty in her relationships with both men and women. Unable to satisfy her intense passions, her happiness continues to be threatened… Through Duomi’s coming-of-age story, Lin Bai makes a candid statement on same-sex attraction and self-denial, a Translation rights sold critique on social suppression, and a declaration of what it means to be a woman in an ever more open China. China: Hua Cheng Publishing House France: Editions You Feng Korea: Munhakdongne Praise for A WAR OF ONE’S OWN: Japan: Bensei Publishing ‘Polyphonic in tone, fluid in perspective, tackling themes of separation and alienation, A WAR OF ONE’S OWN can be seen as a model for écriture feminine in the 1990s.’ David Derwei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University [SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH] in Bai was born in Guangxi Province, China in 1958. She has published nine novels and many Lnovellas, short stories and essays since 1980s. A WAR OF ONE’S OWN (1994) established her as a pioneering writer of women’s literature in China. In 1998, Lin Bai won the first Chinese Women’s Prize for Fiction. She was named “Novelist of the Year” by the Chinese Literature Media Prize in 2004 for the novel, The Records of Women’s Gossips. In 2013, her latest novel, The Chronicle of My life in the North, won the prestigious Lao She Literature Prize. She lives in Beijing. Agent: Stephen Edwards Film Agent: PengLun, Archipel Press Word count: 123,700 Chinese characters / equivalent to 80,000–90,000 words in English 5 A THOUSAND MOONS Sebastian Barry From the multiple prize-winning Sebastian Barry comes a dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American civil war. Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, fiction finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother in arms Thomas McNulty this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan’s farm with the help of a couple of freed slaves, the Bougereau siblings. They try to keep the brutal outside world at bay, along with their memories of the past. But Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of the civil war and when first Winona and then Tennyson Bougereau are violently attacked by forces unknown, Colonel Purton raises the Militia to quell the rebels and night-riders who are massing on the outskirts of town. Armed with a knife, Tennyson’s borrowed gun and the courage of her famous warrior mother Winona decides to take matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice which will reveal the dark secrets of her past and finally reveal to her who she really is. Translation rights sold Exquisitely written and thrumming with the irrepressible spirit Bulgaria: Labyrint of a young girl on the brink of adulthood A THOUSAND France: Joelle Losfeld Germany: Steidl MOONS is a glorious story of love and redemption. Greece: Ikaros Italy: Einaudi Praise for previous novel, Days Without End: The Netherlands: Querido Russia: Azbooka Atticus ‘Many fine novels were published this year, but Sebastian Spain: Alianza Barry’s Days Without End (Faber), a gay romance set amid the bloody mayhem of mid-19th century America, was more wrenching and beautiful than anything I’ve read in a long time.’ Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the Year ebastian Barry’s novels and plays have won the Costa Sales for previous novel, Days Without End: SBook of the Year Award (he is the first novelist to win twice), the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, UK: Faber & Faber the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent US: Viking Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial China: Zhejiang Literature & Art Pub. Ho Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long France: Editions Joelle Losfeld Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted Germany: Steidl for the Man Booker Prize, The Costa Book of the Year Greece: Ikaros Award. His most recent novel, Days Without End, won Italy: Einaudi the Book of the Year, the Walter Scott Prize and the Korea: Book 21 Great Plains Prize. The Netherlands: Querido Agent: Natasha Fairweather Poland: Foksal Film Agent: Cathy King, 42 Management Portugal: Bertrand Romania: Litera UK: Faber & Faber, ed. Angus Cargill (March 2020) Russia: Azbooka Atticus US: Penguin, ed. Kathryn Court (Spring 2020) Spain: Alianza Sweden: Norstedts Word count: 80,000 6 THESE PEOPLE [Essa gente] fiction Chico Buarque IN ASSOCIATION WITH COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS A decadent writer suffers through a financial and emotional crisis while Rio de Janeiro collapses around him. An urgent tragicomedy, Chico Buarque’s newest novel is the first major literary work to deal with Brazil’s current reality. There are some connections between Chico Buarque and the protagonist of ESSA GENTE: the writer Manuel Duarte shares a very similar sounding surname and also likes to wander around the Leblon neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. However, this is deceptive and the reader soon learns that it leads to one of the plot’s many dead ends. Author of a bestselling historical novel in the 1990s, Duarte goes through a creative and emotional desert, set against the background of a Rio de Janeiro that bleeds and struggles under the scourge of a society’s open wounds that are finally suppurating. With its reflection on language - the hallmark of Buarque’s fiction – and a diary structure, it now takes the form of quick notes, providing a memory tool to help whenever possible to give sense to the tumultuous present. In his best style, Chico Buarque blurs the boundaries between life, imagination, dream and delirium, and builds an ingenious narrative, whose lines reveal the contradictions Translation rights sold of a fractured country. France: Gallimard Praise for Chico Buarque: Italy: Feltrinelli Portugal: PRH ‘Chico Buarque has a beautifully strange literary Spain: PRH imagination. His fiction is a constant joy.’ Salman Rushdie ‘With a deceptively simple and aerial narrative frame, Chico Buarque writes a heartrending, and yet subtly comic, elegy to solitude, heartache, erotic (and literary) misunderstandings, and the nostalgia for all things left unsaid in the span of a single lifetime.’ Lila Azam Zanganeh rancisco Buarque de Hollanda was born in Rio Sales for previous novel, Spilt Milk: Fde Janeiro in 1944. Singer and composer, he has written the plays Roda viva (1968), Calabar (1973), Gota UK: Atlantic Books d’água (1975) and Ópera do malandro (1979); and the US: Grove Atlantic novelette Fazenda Modelo (1974). His novels include France: Gallimard Turbulence and Benjamin as well as Budapeste and Leite Derramado. All are published by Companhia das Letras Germany: Fischer in Brazil and Budapeste was published in twenty-four Italy: Feltrinelli countries. The Netherlands: Meulenhoff Portugal: Dom Quixote Agent: Laurence Laluyaux Spain: Salamandra Brazil: Companhia das Letras (2019) Pages: 192 7 COME JOIN OUR DISEASE Sam Byers From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption.
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