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Titles, prices, and other contents of this catalog may be subject to change without notice. TABLE OF CONTENTS: SPRING 2020
FRONTLIST
SERENADE FOR NADIA Zülfü Livaneli ...... 2–3
AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM Nicolas Mathieu ...... 4–5
HEART OF MALENESS Raphaël Liogier ...... 6–7
DRESSED FOR A DANCE IN THE SNOW Monika Zgustova ...... 8–9
MACHIAVELLI Patrick Boucheron ...... 10–11
BESIDE MYSELF Sasha Marianna Salzmann ...... 12–13
SCHRÖDINGER’S DOG Martin Dumont ...... 14–15
THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF PLANTS Stefano Mancuso ...... 16–17
THE HEART: FRIDA KAHLO IN PARIS Marc Petitjean ...... 18–19
BREATHING THROUGH THE WOUND Víctor del Árbol ...... 20–21
HER NAME WAS SARAH Pauline Delabroy-Allard ...... 22–23
THIS LITTLE FAMILY Inès Bayard ...... 24–25
MY BROTHER MOOCHIE Issac J. Bailey ...... 26
NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU Rupert Thomson ...... 27
THE PARTING GIFT Evan Fallenberg ...... 28
BACKLIST
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS...... 29–31
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS...... 32
FEATURED ON THE COVER ...... 32
RIGHTS GUIDE...... Inside back cover
DISTRIBUTION...... Inside back cover
1 translated from the Turkish by Brendan Freely
FROM SERENADE FOR NADIA
When he opened the door, a gust of cold wind blew in. He climbed out slowly with the wreath and the violin, closed the door, and then stood there waiting for us to leave. Süleyman gunned the engine, either out of impatience or to keep the car from stalling, and the car lurched back. As we reversed, I watched the professor walk toward the sea, struggling against the wind, until we were over the ridge and I could no longer see him. As soon as the car stopped I got out and walked to the top of the ridge. Then, shivering in the cold, I watched the professor walk © Fethi Karaduman © Fethi
Zülfü Livaneli is Turkey’s bestselling toward the sea, to the point where the highest waves washed onto the author, a celebrated composer and film beach. Then he put down his violin, took a few more steps forward, director, and a political activist. Widely con- and tossed the wreath into the waves. He stood there for a few sidered one of the most important Turkish moments with his hands clasped in front of him, then turned and cultural figures, he is known for his novels that interweave diverse social and historical started back. When he looked up and saw me he seemed annoyed, so backgrounds, figures, and incidents, including I went back toward the car. the critically acclaimed Bliss (winner of the Süleyman was leaning against the hood, smoking a cigarette. I held Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers my hands over the hood to get some of the warmth from the engine. Award), Leyla’s House, My Brother’s Story, “What’s he doing?” he asked irritably. and The Eunuch of Constantinople, which have been translated into thirty-seven lan- I shrugged my shoulders. We stood there in silence for a while, and guages, won numerous international literary then, just as I was about to get back in the car, Süleyman flicked his prizes, and been turned into movies, stage cigarette away and started striding up to the ridge. I followed, worried plays, and operas. about what he might do. ˘
Brendan Freely was born in Princeton When Süleyman reached the top of the ridge he stopped and
in 1959 and studied psychology at Yale turned to me with an expression of disbelief. I joined him and looked University. His translations include Two Girls down at the beach. There, in front of the crashing waves, his black by Perihan Magden, The Gaze by Elif Shafak, coat flapping in the wind, the professor was playing his violin as he and Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan. looked out to sea.
2 Zülfü Livaneli SERENADE FOR NADIA A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From Turkey's bestselling author, a heartbreaking novel that brings to light tragic details of the real-life sinking of a Jewish refugee ship during World War II.
Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is asked to look after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city at the university’s invitation. He is charming yet distant at first, but Maya gradually learns of the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul sixty years before, and the dark realities that continue to haunt him.
Inspired by the 1942 Struma disaster, in which a shocking betrayal by Allied forces led to the deaths of nearly 800 refugees fleeing the
Holocaust, Serenade for Nadia is both a poignant love story and a gripping testament to the power of human connection in the midst of despair. Revisiting the past, Livaneli beautifully illustrates the lengths we must go to in order to find the closure we need.
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3 translated from the French by William Rodarmor
FROM AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM She unzipped her jeans and tried to slide them down her thighs, but the fabric caught, stuck to her skin. Then she pulled her top over her head. She was wearing a light-colored bathing suit, less sexy than the one from that afternoon. “Okay, I’m going for a dip.” Anthony watched as she headed for the water, her butt bouncing and her thighs pumping. Just before the edge, she gathered herself and dove, arms outstretched. Her body slid into the water with exquisite facility. When she surfaced, her mouth was wide open, she © Bertrand Jamot
Nicolas Mathieu was born in Épinal, was laughing, and her ponytail made wet circles in the air. The swim- France, in 1978. His first novel, Aux animaux mers sitting on the steps started to shout. Anthony couldn’t hear what la guerre, was published in 2014 and adapted they were saying. He took off his shoes in turn and unbuttoned for television by Alain Tasma in 2018. He his jeans, but realizing that he was wearing underpants with colorful received the Prix Goncourt, France’s most
prestigious literary award, in 2018 for his umbrellas gave him pause. He was shivering a little. It was true, it was
second novel, And Their Children After Them. cold as hell. On the patio, the sound level was suddenly cranked up, He lives in Nancy, France. and everybody listened. It was a song being constantly played on the M6 channel. It usually William Rodarmor is a former jour- made you want to smash a guitar or set fire to your school, but here it nalist who has translated some forty-five books and screenplays in genres from made everybody thoughtful. It was still almost new, a title from a similar literary fiction to espionage and fantasy. In rustbelt American city, a shithole town very far away, where little white 2017 he won the Northern California Book punks in plaid shirts drank cheap beer. The song was spreading like a Award for fiction translation forThe Slow virus wherever you found loser working-class kids, pimply teens, Waltz of Turtles by Katherine Pancol. He lives in Berkeley, California. fucked-over crisis victims, unwed mothers, morons on motorbikes, hash smokers, and trade-school dropouts. A wall had fallen in Berlin and peace was already starting to look like a terrifying steam roller. In every town across this de-industrialized, one-dimensional world and in every blighted village, kids without dreams were now listening to a Seattle group named Nirvana. They were letting their hair grow and turning their sadness into anger, their depression into decibels. Paradise was good and lost, the revolution would not take place; the only thing left was to make noise. Anthony bobbed his head in time, along with thirty other people like him. He shivered as the song ended, and then it was over. Everybody could go home. 4 Nicolas Mathieu AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt and a true literary masterpiece, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress.
August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a desolate valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to explore the famous nudist beach across the water. The trip ultimately takes Anthony to his first love and a summer that will determine everything that happens afterward. Nicolas Mathieu conjures up a valley, an era, adolescence, and the political journey of a young generation that has to forge its own path in a dying world. Four summers and four defining moments, from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to the 1998 World Cup, encapsulate the hectic lives of the inhabitants of a France far removed from the centers of globalization, who alternate between decency and rage. A France where almost everybody lives, and which many people would like to forget.
PRAISE FOR AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM: APRIL 2020 | on sale 4/7/2020 $17.99 / $23.99C “A portrait of teenagers growing up in a forgotten, hopeless region Paperback Original | 6 x 9” | 432 pages of France in the 1990s…Mathieu’s book has been acclaimed in France 978-1-89274-677-1 | CQ 24 for shining a light on a forgotten part of the country…[he has] received E-book 978-1-89274-653-5 FICTION domestic acclaim and international attention for writing about Rights: North America working-class youth.” —NEW YORK TIMES Proprietor: Actes Sud, Nathalie Alliel “This is an important book, whose characters stay with us long after ([email protected]) the last pages have been turned…it gives us the keys to better understand the extent of the current rejection of our political and � National review and feature campaign including print, radio, and online coverage economic elites.” — LIBÉRATION � Targeted outreach to literary, political, and translation “Sensitive and apt. A magnificent chronicle.” interest media
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“A great novel. At once genuine, profound, and beautiful.”
— LE CANARD ENCHAÎNÉ 5 translated from the French by Antony Shugaar
FROM HEART OF MALENESS When I sat down to write this book, aghast at the stories countless women were posting with the hashtag #MeToo, I had a moment of doubt. Because I am a heterosexual, white, affluent, Western man, a citizen of the European Union, in short, supposedly immune to discrimination, I was afraid that anything I might say would lack legitimacy. At least, that is, if I was trying to produce anything more than distant musings, arm’s-length observations; at least, if I hoped to achieve any sort of full personal engagement with this issue. In time, though, my doubts subsided: there was no need for me to talk about © Stéphane Giloppe, Giloppe Photography Giloppe Giloppe, © Stéphane
Raphaël Liogier is a philosopher and women at all—their singular nature, their essence. In any case, I sociologist. He is a professor at Sciences wouldn’t have known how. What I needed to conjure up, instead, was Po Aix-en-Provence and teaches at the the world that we all share, a world in which a stunning inequality Collège international de philosophie in Paris. stubbornly persists, even now, an imbalance subtly fed by our common He is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia
University’s Council for European Studies. perceptions and our everyday behavior. In that case, it was enough to
His major works include Le Mythe de be human, really, to be able to claim legitimacy. To think otherwise, l’islamisation, La guerre des civilisations to believe that some dark veil could forever divide feminine from n’aura pas lieu, and Sans emploi. masculine—to believe in a mysterious and unbridgeable difference— would have betrayed the very meaning of what I was sitting down Antony Shugaar is a writer and trans-
lator. His recent translations include Kill to write.
the Father and Kill the Angel by Sandrone
Dazieri, The Catholic School by Edoardo
Albinati, Everything Is Broken Up and Dances by Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera, and Notes on a Shipwreck by Davide Enia.
6 Raphaël Liogier HEART OF MALENESS AN EXPLORATION
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL In this timely, self-reflective essay, a groundbreaking sociologist and philosopher examines the underlying causes of gender inequality and how we can fight against it.
Following the shocking, infuriating accounts shared as part of the #MeToo movement, Raphaël Liogier felt compelled to apply his academic expertise to shed light on the roots of gender inequality and its many manifestations, including catcalling, workplace harassment, and rape, as well as the glass ceiling and the gender pay gap. In the brazenness of Donald Trump, who brags about groping women, the hypocrisy of outspoken progressives whose private behavior belies their so-called feminist ideals, and even occasionally the good intentions of men such as Liogier who strive to be allies, we can see the influence of a deep-seated fantasy of male dominance. With candor and clarity, Liogier demonstrates that the archetypal Prince Charming and a monstrous predator such as Harvey Weinstein are two sides of the same coin—products of a worldview that not only places a man’s desires above a woman’s, but also doubts whether
women are fundamentally capable of knowing what they want. Recent JANUARY 2020 | On sale 1/28/2020 $14.99 / $19.99C
years have witnessed significant progress toward gender equality, from 1 Paperback Original | 5 ⁄4 x 8” | 112 pages the ousting of prominent men accused of sexual misconduct to the 978-1-63542-993-0 | CQ 24 E-book 978-1-63542-994-7 unprecedented popularity of the 2019 Women’s World Cup. Heart of NONFICTION Maleness maps out the crucial work still to be done, first and foremost Rights: World English Proprietor: Other Press addressing the core male fantasies about women's bodies and minds. � National review and feature campaign including print, radio, and online coverage
PRAISE FOR HEART OF MALENESS: � Targeted outreach to ethics, philosophy, history, and literary interest media “[Liogier] has risen to the occasion, writing one of the first personal � Author appearances in NYC, DC, and other key markets essays in which a man talks very directly to other men about what it means to be a ‘virile’ heterosexual man, and what it means to
interact with women in this capacity.” —EUROPENOW
“[Liogier] dissects the mechanisms that have led to recent events…
Brilliant and rewarding.” —PSYCHOLOGIES
“A deep dive into the archaic roots of the patriarchal system.” — L’OBS 7 translated from the Spanish by Julie Jones
FROM DRESSED FOR A DANCE IN THE SNOW In September 2008 I traveled to Moscow. Once I was there, a writer friend, Vitali Shentalinski, who was familiar with my interests, suggested I accompany him to a meeting of former prisoners of the Gulag. I had never met anyone who had been imprisoned in the Gulag, but I knew that Stalin’s reign is referred to as “the other Holocaust,” because during the twenty-four years of his reign of terror (1929–1953), many more people perished than the Jews who died © Drew Stevens © Drew under Nazi rule, although they died over a longer period of time; Monika Zgustova is an award-winning many historians estimate that 30 million people were killed by Stalin’s author whose works have been published in ten languages. She was born in Prague regime. I said yes. and studied comparative literature at the I had imagined the ex-prisoners as lifeless shadows, but the people University of Illinois and the University of who showed up, most of them old and poor, were often lively. I was Chicago. She then moved to Barcelona, surprised to see many women—most of them Jews—at that literary where she writes for El País, The Nation, and political gathering. While I listened to them reciting their poems and CounterPunch, among others. As a
translator of Czech and Russian literature and reading their stories and essays, I began to wonder how they had into Spanish and Catalan—including the endured the cruel conditions of the Gulag. I decided then and there writing of Havel, Kundera, Hrabal, Hašek, that I wouldn’t leave the Russian capital without interviewing some Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and of those survivors. […] Babel—Zgustova is credited with bringing
major twentieth-century writers to Spain. To reach them, I had to take the metro and then train, bus, or streetcar. There, on the outskirts of the capital, the former political Julie Jones is Professor Emeritus of prisoners greeted me with what I had come to see as Russian hospital- Spanish at the University of New Orleans. ity. Never completely rehabilitated, they remembered their years of She has published widely on the Latin captivity with horror, but many also told me their lives would have American writers of the “Boom,” with a focus on Luis Buñuel’s work in numerous been incomplete without that experience. […] articles for such journals as Cineaste and Talking to “my” women, I realized human beings are capable of Cinema Journal. great fortitude, and I also realized there is no situation, no matter how awful, that we cannot survive.
8 Monika Zgustova DRESSED FOR A DANCE IN THE SNOW WOMEN'S VOICES FROM THE GULAG
An unexpectedly uplifting account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.
The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustova’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in the face of adversity. Where one would expect to find only hopelessness and despair, Zgustova has unearthed tales of love, art, and friendship that endured and even flourished in times of tragedy. These stories, collected in the vein of Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize–winning oral histories, turn one of the darkest periods of the Soviet era into a song of human persever- ance, in a way that reads as an intimate family history.
PRAISE FOR DRESSED FOR A DANCE IN THE SNOW: “A unique, beautiful, and exhaustive piece of reporting that reads Women’s Voices from the Gulag like an exciting narrative full of intrigue…A splendid complement to and continuation of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago.” FEBRUARY 2020 | on sale 2/4/2020 — ABC CULTURAL $25.99 / $34.99C
1 1 Hardcover | 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4” | 304 pages “Reading Dressed for a Dance in the Snow makes you freeze, 978-1-59051-177-0 | CQ 12 and not just from the cold that blows in from the tundra, but also E-book 978-1-59051-184-8 from sheer fear…Zgustova reconstructs, through memories and NONFICTION Rights: World English confessions, the horror experienced by women in the Soviet Union’s Proprietor: Galaxia Gutenberg, Joan Tarrida prison camps.” ([email protected]) — EL PAÍS � National review and feature campaign including print, radio, and online coverage “ Rarely have we ever been able to hear the voices of these people, � Targeted outreach to international justice, women’s, who learned to survive, forced by political circumstances not to raise history, and literary interest media any dissenting views. These testimonies, so cruel and real, have � Author appearances in NYC, DC, and other key markets now been turned into a song of freedom.”
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9 translated from the French by Willard Wood
FROM MACHIAVELLI The shadows lengthen, winter steals in, numbing men’s souls. Machiavelli knew all this well: the words that freeze behind closed lips, the inability to express what we are becoming. He knew the slow and inexorable slide of a political language into obsolescence. The language he had learned with such delight from books no longer served to accurately render “the actual truth of the matter.” When the recent past was no longer any help, why should he not turn toward those he called his “dear Romans,” plunge into ancient texts as if into a large, refreshing bath, and give the name “Antiquity” to © Ulf Andersen © Ulf
Patrick Boucheron is a French histo- this invigorating way of recasting the future? rian. He previously taught medieval history Is that what we call the Renaissance? Why not, if we’re willing to at the École normale supérieure and the Uni- open our eyes to this spring, whose colors are vapid and innocent versity of Paris, and is currently a professor only to those who cannot see the brutal ferocity of a Botticelli canvas. of history at the Collège de France. He is the
author of twelve books and the editor of five, Machiavelli is the master of disillusioning. That’s why, all through
including France in the World, which became history, he’s been a trusted ally in evil times. For my part, I don’t a bestseller in France. think of myself as working on Machiavelli. But with him, yes, as a brother in arms—with the caveat that because he was always a scout, Willard Wood, who grew up in France, always in the forefront, we must read him not in the present but in has translated more than twenty-five books from the French. He is a recipient of the the future tense. Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Transla- All of which is to say something perfectly straightforward: interest tion and a National Endowment for the Arts in Machiavelli always revives in the course of history when the storm Fellowship in Translation. He lives in Norfolk, clouds are gathering, because he’s the man to philosophize in heavy Connecticut. weather. If we’re reading him today, it means we should be worried. He’s back: wake up.
10 Patrick Boucheron MACHIAVELLI THE ART OF TEACHING PEOPLE WHAT TO FEAR
A preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with invaluable political insights that have never resonated as strongly as they do today.
Since Machiavelli’s death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him. But what do we really know about this man apart from the term invented by his detractors to refer to that political evil, Machiavellianism? It was Machiavelli’s luck to be disappointed by every statesman he encountered throughout his life—that was why he had to write
The Prince. If the book endeavors to dissociate political action from common morality, the question still remains today, not why, but for whom Machiavelli wrote. For princes, or for those who want to resist them? Is the art of governing about taking power or keeping it? And what is “the people”? Can they govern themselves? Beyond cynical advice for the powerful, Machiavelli meditates profoundly on the idea of popular sovereignty. With verve and a delightful erudition, Patrick Boucheron sheds light on the life and works of this unclassifiable visionary, illustrating how
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11 translated from the German by Imogen Taylor
FROM BESIDE MYSELF Ali had no idea whether anyone was waiting for her; she hoped so, but didn’t know. She lay on the floor, beating her eyelashes the way a fly beats its wings. She longed for a cigarette to smoke away the taste of flabby boiled fat on her palate, and the craving pulled her up by the scruff of her neck and out of the toilet cubicle. Careful not to look in the mirror, she steadied herself against the basin and held her lips under the jet of water. A woman gave her a nudge and signaled to her that it wasn’t safe to drink. She held out a plastic bottle to Ali, who pressed the narrow bottleneck to her lips and drank noiselessly. © Stefan Loeber © Stefan
Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a The woman took back the empty bottle and ran a hand through Ali’s playwright, essayist, curator, and writer in curls as if to tidy them. Then she ran her thumb over the thin skin residence of the Maxim Gorki Theater in under Ali’s eyes and over her pointy chin, grasping her chin for a Berlin. She is the cofounder of the culture moment between finger and thumb. Ali smiled; the woman smiled magazine freitext and was the artistic director
of Studio .R Her work has been translated, too. They walked slowly out into the lobby, Ali following the woman
performed, and bestowed awards in more and a crowd of others who seemed to know the way. She walked than twenty countries. Beside Myself is her alongside the moving walkway, where people were jostling one first novel, and was short-listed for the 2017 another, followed the echo of the marble floor, and got in line for German Book Prize. passport control. She began to grow impatient and tried to push the
Imogen Taylor studied French and queue forward, but it was stuck and she could only look left and German at New College, Oxford, and the right. Her head was spinning. All the world was in the queue: mini- Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the skirts, burkas, moustaches of every style and color, sunglasses of every translator of Sascha Arango, Dirk Kurbjuweit, size, silicone lips in every shape, kids in buggies, kids on backs and on and Melanie Raabe, among others. In March
2016 she received the Goethe-Institut Award shoulders and between feet. On all sides the crowd pressed in on Ali, for New Translations. so dense she couldn’t fall. A little girl pushed against the Plexiglas wall at the barrier and a pane of glass fell out with a bang. The girl screamed. Her mother forced her way through the crowd and gave her a fierce shake. Ali was sure she tasted chicken in her throat again. She rummaged for her passport.
12 Sasha Marianna Salzmann BESIDE MYSELF A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A brilliant literary debut about belonging, family, and love, and the enigmatic nature of identity.
Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is one woman’s search for her twin brother. When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Ali leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror of her own self, Ali is lost. In a city steeped in political and social changes, where you can buy gender-changing drugs on the street, Ali’s search—for her missing brother, for her identity—will take her on a journey for connection and belonging.
PRAISE FOR BESIDE MYSELF:
“Beautifully written despite the darkness of its story and texture. There are hundreds of glimpses of worlds inside worlds… Beside Myself is both a cool thriller and a meditation on family.”
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1 or gender are important for our self-definition…[an] at times Paperback Original with Flaps | 5 ⁄4 x 8” | 336 pages quirky, at times graphic tale of lost and found.” 978-1-89274-644-3 | CQ 24 E-book 978-1-89274-640-5 —WORLD LITERATURE TODAY FICTION “Fiction at its highest purpose—a debut novel that comes straight Rights: North America Agent: David Forrer, InkWell Management from the gates like a raging bull…Beside Myself reads like a classic ([email protected]) and is yet refreshingly modern…[It] beautifully interweaves four generations of characters of different ages, times, places, � National review and feature campaign including print, radio, and online coverage languages, and genders.” — ARTSHUB � Targeted outreach to translation, women’s, gender identity, and literary interest media
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13 translated from the French by John Cullen
FROM SCHRÖDINGER’S DOG Pierre worried me. It was rare for his dives to be shorter than mine. Ordinarily, he descended without difficulty; he could go down as far as twenty meters, he could hold his breath for more than three min- utes. Today I hadn’t seen him stay on the bottom even once. I blamed him for going out so much; he must have picked up a virus or caught a cold. I had eagerly looked forward to this weekend with him, and it annoyed me that he was sick. The hotel restaurant seemed more like a living room. A fireplace, a couple of wooden tables. In low season, the owner always waited on © Aliosha Padovani
Martin Dumont was born in Paris in the tables herself. I had the impression that she recognized us, but I 1988 and spent many years in Brittany, wasn’t sure. where he fell in love with the sea. In addition We ordered the plat du jour. Pierre got up to go to the men’s room, to writing, he works as a naval architect. and I looked over my surroundings. There weren’t many diners. It was Schrödinger’s Dog is his first novel. a calm place, and I liked being back there. Agitation exhausts me. I
John Cullen is the translator of many think that comes from spending so much of my life in a taxi; you stay books from Spanish, French, German, and alone long enough, you get used to the peace. Italian, including Susanna Tamaro’s Follow Our dinners were served, but Pierre still hadn’t come back from the Your Heart, Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck, Carla toilets. I felt something in the pit of my stomach. Light, but disagree- Guelfenbein’s In the Distance with You, Juli
Zeh’s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano’s Villa able. I took the napkin off my lap, and that was when I saw him. He Triste, and Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault was moving toward me, looking stunned, his face transparently pale. Investigation. He lives in upstate New York. No, more like strangely yellow. He came closer. His whole body was shaking. “Dad…” I didn’t recognize his voice. There were too many groans, too much fear inside it. I felt my heart racing in my chest. “What? What? What’s going on?!”
14 Martin Dumont SCHRÖDINGER’S DOG A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A striking debut novel about the power of a father’s love for his son and the heart-wrenching choices he has to make in the face of death.
Yanis’s world is Pierre, the son he raised as a single parent. For nearly twenty years, Yanis spent his nights as a cabdriver with Pierre always at his side, so as not to miss a moment in each other’s company. Yanis and Pierre also share a love of diving—in pursuit of that magical moment when they lose themselves in the deep sea. When enveloped by the natural world, Yanis and Pierre relish an escape from life’s pressures. But for some time, Pierre has been tired. Too tired. Despite how attentively Yanis watched him, Yanis missed the early signs of illness. Faced with the harsh reality of his son’s numbered days, Yanis struggles to invent a life his son won’t have the time to live.
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“A first novel of remarkable skill and emotion.”
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15 translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti
FROM THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF PLANTS Most species, whether animal or vegetable, which we consider today to be invasive, came to be so in this way: by escaping from places where people believed it was possible to keep them confined. To be more precise, not only species we consider invasive, but most of the plants we think of as having always been a part of our environment, are actually migrants from a more or less distant past. Plants that are now perceived as part of our cultural heritage are merely well-
© Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Florence. Strozzi, Palazzo © Courtesy Fondazione Moggi Alessandro by Photo assimilated foreigners.
Stefano Mancuso is one of the Take corn. This foreigner from Mexico has fed the population of world’s leading authorities in the field of plant the Po Valley for generations. Or tomatoes and basil, distinctive neurobiology, which explores signaling and plants of Italian food culture. After all, isn’t pasta with tomato and communication at all levels of biological a sprig of basil Italy’s national dish? Well, the tomato (Solanum organization. He is a professor at the Univer- sity of Florence and has published more lycopersicum) is a species native to an area between Mexico and Peru, than 250 scientific papers in international brought to Europe for the first time by Hernán Cortés in1540 . And journals. His previous books include The it was still nothing like the tomato we know today. Indeed, when Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New it got to Italy in 1544, its fruit was yellow and it was described by Understanding of Plant Intelligence and
Behavior and Brilliant Green: The Surprising Andrea Mattioli in his Medici Senensis Commentarii as mala aurea,
History and Science of Plant Intelligence. later translated more literally in “pomo d’oro” (golden apple). In order to gain acceptance, the poor tomato, as happens with many other Gregory Conti teaches English at migrants, had to go through what might be called a “multicolored the University of Perugia and is a regular experience.” And in the case of the tomato, the phrase must be taken contributor to Raritan. His recent translations include “Seven Poems” by Elisa Biagini, The literally. Indeed, until it turned red it was looked upon with suspicion. Fault Line by Paolo Rumiz, and A Soldier on First, it was considered toxic, then of only ornamental use, and then the Southern Front by Emilio Lussu. curative. Not until 1572, do we find a reference to a “lustily red” to- mato. From then on, everything got easier; once it veered to red, the tomato was almost home. It began to be used for nutritional purposes. But slowly. So slowly that the first recipe for our national dish, pasta with tomato, would not appear until the first half of the nineteenth century.
16 Stefano Mancuso with watercolors by Grisha Fischer THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF PLANTS In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture.
When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.
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17 translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
FROM THE HEART: FRIDA KAHLO IN PARIS In my hunt for traces of Frida Kahlo, I find a box in the cellar full of letters and papers gathered together after my father’s death in 1993. I still hope to find a letter from her, but in vain. The bulk of this paper- work is his correspondence with art historians regarding interviews he granted them, and with conservators from museums abroad to whom he loaned the painting. I arrange the letters by date to establish a chronology of the painting’s history. I write to everyone who contacted him, in the hope of learning a little more about him. The truth is, it now occurs to me that I know very little about my © Jean-Hughes Berrou © Jean-Hughes
Marc Petitjean is a writer, filmmaker, father’s life. and photographer. He has directed several Is there a place somewhere where the memories of all the dead are documentaries, including From Hiroshima to kept together? We can remember our own experiences at our leisure, Fukushima, on Dr. Shuntaro Hida, a survivor but not other people’s. This hypothetical memorial reservoir would of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Trésor
Vivant, about a Japanese kimono painter; help me sketch a picture of my father in his earlier years. In the
and Zones grises, on his own search for absence of such a resource, I am left to imagine things, drawing on information about the life of his father, Michel facts, eyewitness accounts, snatches of information and memories, Petitjean, after his death. giving me free rein to conjure a character who may be something like the man he truly was. Adriana Hunter studied French and
Drama at the University of London. She has I picture my father as a young man, sitting in his shirtsleeves on translated more than eighty books, including the edge of a bed and looking at The Heart by the glow of a bedside Véronique Olmi’s Bakhita and Hervé Le light. Then he takes a pad of writing paper and writes one of the Tellier’s Eléctrico W, winner of the French- letters that Oscar will later find in the artist’s archives in Mexico: American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England. April 7, 1939. Paris is gloomy, the fine weather has tried a few times, with no success. The atmosphere here is very bad, every- thing smells of war, even my optimism is starting to be eroded. I haven’t forgotten you, I still stop and gaze at your painting for long stretches of time. I don’t understand how you were so kind to me, a poor average sort. You have my kisses and my love. Michel
18 Marc Petitjean THE HEART: FRIDA KAHLO IN PARIS This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant surrealist art scene in the 1930s.
In 1939, devastated after the revelation that her husband had had an affair with her sister, Frida Kahlo left her home in Mexico and headed for France to rebuild her life and rediscover her art. Now, for the first time, this missing part of Kahlo’s story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her time alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel
Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist as she learns how to love—and ultimately how to paint—again.
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“Superb…[Petitjean] enables us to discover the artistic Paris
of the interwar period.” —LA PRESSE DE LA MANCHE
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19 translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
FROM BREATHING THROUGH THE WOUND A day like any other day, a single second identical to the one before it, a second that in no way had presaged that it would be the last moment of happiness in his life. It was an absurd thought, but had he known— had he had even an inkling—although he couldn’t have avoided it, he could at least have hugged them tighter, said things that weren’t as pointless and ridiculous and trivial as arguing. There is always some- thing left to be said when there’s no longer any time left to say it. Thunder rumbled, stirring the air, and fat raindrops began to fall, creating expanding ripples around him. Some drops bounced like © Víctor del Árbol ©
Víctor del Árbol was born in Barce- rubber balls off the shoulders of his coat, others slid down his fore- lona in 1968 and was an officer of the head and onto his cheeks. It was getting late and he’d gone too many Catalan police force from 1992 to 2012. As miles out of his way. He had to go back. There was no place for him the recipient of the Nadal Prize, the Tiflos to go—that was certainly the truth—but he couldn’t stay here any Prize, and as the first Spanish author to win the Prix du Polar Européen, he has longer. I have to get back, he said to himself as he dried the tears distinguished himself as a notable voice in forming in his red eyes. Spanish literature. Sometimes people only weep their sorrows on the inside. He dropped the bouquet of dahlias, the flowers Elena had loved Lisa Dillman teaches in the Depart- so much, and for a few minutes stood and gazed at the stream as it ment of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia. Some of her swallowed them up. Then he returned to the car and drove away recent translations include A Million Drops without looking back. by Víctor del Árbol, Such Small Hands by
Andrés Barba, and Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, which won the
2016 Best Translated Book Award.
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20 Víctor del Árbol BREATHING THROUGH THE WOUND A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the acclaimed author of A Million Drops, an engrossing psycho- logical thriller that traces a widower’s descent into the seedy underbelly of Madrid.
Eduardo Quintana’s life lost all meaning when his wife and daughter were killed in a tragic accident. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief and guilt, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, not caring if he lives or dies. But when a grieving mother asks Eduardo to paint a portrait of her son’s killer, he finds himself drawn to the unusual commission. He alone understands her need to look deep into the soul of the man who changed her life forever, and he alone can help. As Eduardo sets out to discover what it takes to know a killer, he is pulled deeper and deeper into Madrid’s criminal underworld, where mercenaries, prostitutes, murderers, and thieves are all entangled in a dangerous and deadly web, in which nothing, and no one, are as they seem.
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21 translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
FROM HER NAME WAS SARAH It’s all about Sarah, her one-off brand of beauty, her sharp, rare bird’s beak of a nose, the unusual color of her eyes, stone-like, green, but not really, not green, her absinthe, malachite, faded gray-green eyes, her snake eyes with their drooping lids. It’s all about the spring when she came into my life as if stepping onto a stage, with gusto, triumphant. Victorious. […] She’s late, out of breath, laughing. An unexpected tornado. She talks loudly, fast, hauling from her bag a bottle of wine, things to eat, a profusion of stuff. She takes off her scarf, her coat, her gloves and © Delphine Chanet © Delphine
Pauline Delabroy-Allard was born in hat. She dumps everything on the floor, on the cream carpeting. She 1988. Her Name Was Sarah is her first novel. apologizes, jokes, turns circles. She talks badly, using coarse words that seem to hang in the air long after they’ve been spoken. She makes Adriana Hunter studied French and too much noise. There was nothing, silence, the occasional affected Drama at the University of London. She has
translated more than eighty books, including laugh, punctilious facial expressions, and all at once she’s the only
Véronique Olmi’s Bakhita and Hervé Le thing here. It’s annoying. The lady of the house frowns, in her evening Tellier’s Eléctrico W, winner of the French- dress. Sarah doesn’t notice, energetically kisses everyone hello. She American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize leans toward me, she smells of crisp late December air. She has the in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England. rosy cheeks of someone who’s hurried. She’s wearing far too much make-up. She’s not very well dressed, she isn’t wearing her best outfit, she’s not elegant, she hasn’t put her hair in a sophisticated up-do. She talks a lot, jumps at a glass of wine handed to her, roars with laughter at a quip. She’s animated, enthused, impassioned.
22 Pauline Delabroy-Allard HER NAME WAS SARAH A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake.
A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. And then one night at a friend’s tepid New Year’s Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado—a talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in a world where everyone seems preoccupied with being “just so.” Thus begins an intense relationship, tender and violent, that will upend both women’s lives. In gorgeous, evocative prose, Pauline Delabroy-Allard perfectly cap- tures the pull of a desire so strong that it blinds us to everything else.
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“There are shades of Duras, Nabokov, and Barthes in the intensely
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23 translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
FROM THIS LITTLE FAMILY Marie doesn’t tell herself it’s over. She knows this is just the begin- ning. The entrance to her building is a little further up the street, on the corner of the boulevard Voltaire. It’s not quite nine o’clock; Laurent is most likely having his dinner. He must have been on the way to the restaurant, joshing with his coworkers and his new client while his wife was being raped by her boss, penetrated in every orifice on the seat of a car. She felt her cell phone fall onto the rough mat, vibrating and ringing under her feet, and was overwhelmed with frustration that she couldn’t reach it. She goes into the building and © Deborah Morier © Deborah
Inès Bayard was born in Toulouse, meets the caretaker taking out the trash cans. “Hello, Mrs. Campan, France, in 1991. She lived and studied in Paris how are you?” Marie keeps her head down and slips away into the for several years before relocating in 2017 to shadows in the corridor, answering with an “A little tired, but I’m Berlin, where she is currently based. This fine! Goodnight” as she goes up in the elevator. She hopes he didn’t Little Family is her first novel. notice anything unusual. She knows already that she’s in the process
Adriana Hunter studied French and of hiding the evil event, that she won’t say anything, that no one will Drama at the University of London. She has ever know about the assault. translated more than eighty books, including The apartment is shrouded in darkness partially diluted by the Véronique Olmi’s Bakhita and Hervé Le open curtains allowing light from the boulevard into the living room. Tellier’s Eléctrico W, winner of the French-
American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize There’s no one there. She’d like to call her husband to reassure him. in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England. Every step toward the kitchen is painful. The central corridor that leads to all the rooms in the apartment seems never-ending, almost ridiculous. She picks up the handset that she left on the sideboard this morning and dials Laurent’s number. She hopes he doesn’t pick up so she can leave a controlled message with no fluctuations or lurching in her breathing. He doesn’t answer. “Yes, it’s me. So I finally got home, one of the Métro lines was blocked… I’m going to take a shower and go to bed, I’m exhausted. I hope everything’s going well with your client. I love you.” She hangs up, feeling absent, empty. She thinks this is best and anyway, if she wanted to admit anything to him she wouldn’t find the right way to do it. He would always look at her differently, not only as his wife but as the victim, the woman who was raped.
24 Inès Bayard THIS LITTLE FAMILY A NOVEL
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL This astonishing debut inhabits the mind of a young married woman driven to extremes by disgust and dread in the aftermath of a rape.
Marie and Laurent, a young, affluent couple, have settled into their large Paris apartment and decide to start trying for a baby. This picture- perfect existence is shattered when Marie is assaulted by her new boss. Deeply shaken by the attack, she discovers she is pregnant, and is convinced her rapist is the father. Marie closes herself off in a destructive silence, ultimately leading her to commit an irreparable act. In a first novel of extraordinary power and depth, Inès Bayard tears down the hypocritical façade of upper-middle-class respectability, exposing disturbing truths about how society sees women, and how women see themselves.
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“Remarkable…Bayard’s writing is sharp, cold, precise, and sends chills down your spine. You read this novel with bated breath.”
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25 Issac J. Bailey MY BROTHER MOOCHIE REGAINING DIGNITY IN THE FACE OF CRIME, POVERTY, AND RACISM IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.
At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return from prison for thirty-two years. Bailey tells the story of their relationship and of his experience living in a family suffering guilt and shame. Drawing on sociological research as well as his expertise as a journalist, he seeks to answer the crucial question of why Moochie and many other young black men—including half of the ten boys in his own family—end up in the criminal justice system. What role did poverty, race, and faith play? What effect did living in the South, in the Bible Belt, have? And why is their experience understood as an acceptable trope for black men, while white people who commit crimes are never seen in this generalized way?
My Brother Moochie provides a wide-ranging yet intensely intimate view of crime and incarceration in the United States, and the devas- tating effects on the incarcerated, their loved ones, their victims, and
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Issac J. Bailey was born in St. Stephen, South Carolina, and “ Bailey’s memoir is a triumph, a painful indictment of American holds a degree in psychology from Davidson College in North inhumanity woven with threads of grace and love.” Carolina. Having trained at the prestigious Poynter Institute for — THE GUARDIAN journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida, he has been a professional journalist for twenty years. He has taught applied ethics at Coastal “An elegant memoir…Bailey tells his story with a raw honesty [and]
Carolina University and, as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, has taught boldly examines the fault lines etched so sharply in our current journalism at Harvard Summer School. Bailey has won numerous cultural landscape.” — USA TODAY national, state, and local awards for his writings. He currently lives in Myrtle Beach with his wife and children.
26 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE OBSERVER Rupert Thomson NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU A NOVEL
A literary tour de force that traces the real-life love affair of two “Fascinating…a moving celebration of resistance, creativity, and self-reinvention.” extraordinary women, recreating the surrealist movement in Paris —The Guardian, Best Books of the Year and the horrors of the world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.
In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year- old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As “sisters” they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, ...... they move in the most glamorous social circles—meeting everyone from Hemingway to Dalí—and produce provocative photographs that Rupert Thomson ...... still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism ......
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embodied…wonderfully peculiar.” The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by
— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Ana Kokkinos; and Death of a Murderer, which was short-listed
for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. His memoir, This Party’s “Sleek, lush…an extraordinary and rollicking tale…Cahun and Moore’s Got to Stop, was named Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the is a beautiful love story that deserves to be better known.” Year. He lives in London. — HARPER’S
27 Evan Fallenberg THE PARTING GIFT A NOVEL
This erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge is suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating scents of Israel’s Mediterranean coast.
An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college friend, Adam, at whose place he has been crashing since his abrupt return to the States from Israel. Now that the narrator is moving on to a new location, he finally reveals the events that led him to Adam’s door, set in motion by a chance encounter with Uzi, an older man with whom the narrator has just had an intense sexual relationship. From his first meeting with Uzi, the narrator is overwhelmed by an animal attraction that will lead him to derail his life, withdraw from friends, and extend his stay in a small town north of Tel Aviv. As he becomes increasingly entangled in Uzi’s life—and by extension the lives of Uzi’s ex-wife and children—his passion turns sinister, ultimately threatening all around him. Written in a circuitous style reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom
Ripley novels, The Parting Gift is a page-turner and a shrewd exploration of the roles men assume, or are forced to assume.
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Evan Fallenberg is the author of three novels and a translator — SHELF AWARENESS (starred review) of Hebrew books, plays, and films. His work has won or been “An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love’s short-listed for numerous awards, including the American Library
Association Barbara Gittings Stonewall Award for Literature, the underside…this breathless story should only be read in one sitting.
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and the PEN Translation It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one’s inner
Prize. He teaches at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv and is faculty thigh with an old serrated knife.” co-director of the Vermont College of Fine Arts International MFA in —ANDRÉ ACIMAN, author of Call Me by Your Name
Creative Writing & Literary Translation. Fallenberg is also the founder of Arabesque: An Arts and Residency Center in Old Akko, Israel.
28 BACKLIST: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
“There are few people writing about love and longing with such unflinching ACTS OF INFIDELITY sharpness and insight as Lena Andersson. She gives feelings and experiences ACTS OF INFIDELITY ANDERSSON LENA so often dismissed as trivial the attention and gravity they deserve, to brilliant, and often painful, effect.” —SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, author of The Water Cure
“ENGROSSING…A COGENT, ASTUTE NOVEL.” —Publishers Weekly “A novel of heartbreak told with intellectual rigor. It gripped me from first page to last. Fantastic!” “ANDERSSON…IS AN ELECTRIFYING WRITER.” — ALICE SEBOLD, —Times Literary Supplement author of The Lovely Bones WHEN ESTER NILSSON MEETS THE ACTOR OLOF STEN, she falls madly in love. Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless
start to meet regularly and begin a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists he doesn’t ANDERSSON LENA The plan to leave his wife, but he doesn’t object to this new situation either…it’s far too much fun. Ester, on the other hand, is convinced that things might change. But as their relationship continues over repeated summers apart, and winters full of heated meetings in bars, she is forced to realize the truth: Ester Nilsson has become a mistress.
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Dollmaker LENA ANDERSSON is a columnist for Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest morning paper. Considered one of the country’s sharpest contemporary analysts, A Novel by she writes about politics, society, culture, religion, and other topics. Her fifth novel and English-language debut, Willful Disregard, was awarded the 2013 August Prize, Sweden’s highest literary honor.
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