the bukowski agency backlist highlights
2010
www.thebukowskiagency.com CONTENTS Anita Rau Badami ...... 2 Judy Fong Bates ...... 4 Alan Bradley ...... 6 Catherine Bush ...... 8 Abigail Carter ...... 9 Wayson Choy ...... 10 Austin Clarke ...... 12 George Elliott Clarke ...... 14 Anthony De Sa ...... 15 John Doyle ...... 16 Liam Durcan ...... 17 Anosh Irani ...... 18 Rebecca Eckler ...... 20 Paul Glennon ...... 21 Ryan Knighton ...... 22 Lori Lansens ...... 24 Sidura Ludwig ...... 26 Pearl Luke ...... 27 Annabel Lyon ...... 28 D .J . McIntosh ...... 30 Leila Nadir ...... 31 Shafiq Qaadri ...... 32 Adria Vasil ...... 32 Eden Robinson ...... 33 Kerri Sakamoto ...... 34 Sandra Sabatini ...... 36 Cathryn Tobin ...... 37 Cathleen With ...... 38
CLIENTS ...... 39 CO-AGENTS ...... 40 Anita Rau Badami Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? traces the epic trajectory of a tale of terrorism through time and space 95,000 words hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Knopf, September 2006 Italy: Marsilio, Spring 2008 France: Éditions Philippe Rey, India: Penguin, January 2007 March 2007 Australia: Scribe, March 2007 Holland: De Geus, Spring 2008
• Longlisted for the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award • Shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association 2007 Evergreen Awards The Hero’s Walk The Hero’s Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today’s India
368 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Algonquin, 2001 Canada: Knopf, 2000 US: Paperback: Ballantine Greece: Kastaniotis Editions UK: Bloomsbury, 2002 Poland: Wydawnictwo Dialog France: Stock, 2004 Portugal: Difel, 2003 Spain: Ediciones Bronce, 2002 Italy: Marsilio, 2004 Catalan: Columna, 2003 Holland: De Geus, 2005
• A Washington Post Best Book of 2001 • Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award • Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction • Winner of the 2001 Regional Commonwealth Prize for Best Book • Winner of the 2005 Giuseppe Berto Literary Prize for Best Italian Translation • A national bestseller
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Tamarind Woman Tamarind Woman is a beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women
266 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Algonquin Books, Spring France: Éditions Philippe Rey, 2004 2002 India: Penguin, 2004 Canada: Penguin, Spring 2002 Germany: Bertelsmann UK: Bloomsbury, Fall 2002 Serbia: Monomoimanjana, 2009
• A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, Spring 2002 • A WH Smith Travel Read-of-the-Week, UK
PRAISE FOR ANITA RAU BADAMI’S FICTION “Badami has woven a web of memory and myth in her novel, a tapestry in which the personal and the political are tragically intertwined.” —THE CALCUTTA TELEGRAPH
“This book demands to be read straight through—20 pages a night before switching off the bedside lamps will leave most readers longing for more.” —THE WASHINGTON POST
“A novel of broad and lovely scope. Badami deftly handles terrifying shifts in tradition and social order.” —ELLE
“A skilled writer can convey epic events through the lives of ordinary people. Badami’s [book] is an outstanding example of such skill…. In graceful prose, replete with the sensuous details of everyday life, she gives us a portrait of resilience and adaptability in the face of personal disillusion, trauma, and disintegrating tradition.” —COMMONWEALTH PRIZE JURY
“This is a substantial, satisfying read, elegantly written and effortlessly compelling. Much reminiscent of Rohinton Mistry.” —THE INDEPENDENT, UK
“A picture of post-colonial India is vividly conjured up…. Sharply realized as the minor characters are, they are never allowed to overshadow the central figures…. The more upbeat mood [of the latter part of the book] mitigates the sadness of the rest, and brings this very accomplished first novel to a quiet and satisfying conclusion.” —THE TIMES, UK
fiction 3 Judy Fong Bates The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir A probing memoir about a daughter’s search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents’ past
80,000 words hardcover / Manuscript available
“Judy Fong Bates’ new memoir, The Year of Finding Memory, is the most accurate and heart felt written account of what it’s like to go back to the Chinese countryside in search of your roots that I’ve ever read. She captures the beauty of the villages, the sense of returning home to a place you’ve never been, the heartache, joy, understanding and longing that you feel, and that very real there-but-for-the-grace-of-God emotion that you experience in meeting your relatives who were left behind. Beautiful!” –Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love and Snowflower and the Secret Fan RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Random House, “With the elegant brush strokes of a miniaturist, Judy Fong Bates brings April 2010 alive the world of her family both in Canada and China. In doing so, she tells the tale of two nations and what it means to live on the bridge that spans the countries. The Year of Finding Memory explores the universal journey of trying to construct, out of the debris of the past, an understanding of our ancestry. This poignant memoir explores the universal passage we must all take to discover an understanding of ourselves.” –Shyam Selvadurai, author of Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens
Growing up in her father’s hand laundry in small-town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to the mystery and allure of her parents’ stories of their past lives in China, an exotic and exciting place far removed from their humdrum everyday lives . Then a half-century after her arrival, Judy Fong Bates, her husband and her brothers travelled back to China for the first time .
The reunion with her older sister and other relatives in China spiralled into a series of unanticipated and shocking discoveries . In her ancestral village she heard stories of her mother, a glamorous young woman who arrived from the big city to teach, chasing her father, the exalted village leader and wealthy Gold Mountain Guest . These stories didn’t match what she’d witnessed of her parents, who were poverty-stricken and always at odds with each other . Possessed with a need to reconcile these facts, Fong Bates returned a year later and immersed herself in a place so unexpectedly bountiful that she finally began to understand her parents in a way that she never did when they were alive .
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Midnight at the Dragon Café The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s
315 pages hardcover / Finished books available • The 2007 “One Community, One Book” selection for Portland, Oregon • Winner of a 2006 Alex Award from the American Library Association • An American Library Association Notable Book for 2006
PRAISE FOR JUDY FONG BATES’ MIDNIGHT AT THE DRAGON CAFÉ “In deceptively simple, intimate prose, Judy Fong Bates captures the complexities of a childhood filled with secrets, longing, and superstition, and powerfully exposes the lengths to which families will go to survive. Midnight at the Dragon Café is an original, haunting debut novel.” RIGHTS SOLD —KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review US: Counterpoint Press, April 2005 “The mounting suspense of family secrets makes this first novel a Canada: McClelland & breathless read, even as the simple, beautiful words make you want to Stewart, February 2004 stop and read the sentences over and over again.” Thailand: Sanskrit Books —BOOKLIST, starred review Also Available “Bates writes in clean, understated prose, imbuing her characters with a China Dog and Other lasting poignancy.” Stories from the Chinese —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Laundry
“Judy Fong Bates catches and holds our attention like a teacher of unruly kids: She whispers… unpretentious prose.” —THE WASHINGTON POST
“The simplicity and honesty of Fong Bates’ composition… puts the readers right in the midst of ‘Dragon Café’.” —THE PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND
“A deeply affecting debut novel…, Bates conveys with pathos and generosity the anger, disappointment, vulnerability and pride of people struggling to balance duty and passion.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“An elegant first novel.” —CHATELAINE
“[Bates’] attention to physical detail is matched by compassionate understanding, which gives real weight to the telling of the submerged, drowning passion hidden in this household.” —THE NATIONAL POST
fiction 5 Alan Bradley The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag The second installment of the Flavia de Luce mystery series
384 pages / Finished books available
“A gloriously eccentric cast of characters… There’s not a reader alive who wouldn’t want to watch Flavia in her lab concocting some nefarious brew.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder—but, then again, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die . When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in Bishop’s Lacey, he puts on a show with his loyal assistant, the disarmingly charming Nialla, prone (by Flavia’s estimation) to strange bruises and long, solitary cries in graveyards . While Nialla plays Mother Goose, Rupert’s goose gets RIGHTS SOLD cooked, the victim of an electrocution that is too perfectly planned US: Delacorte Press, to be an accident . March 2010 Canada: Doubleday, Putting down her sister-punishing chemistry experiments and March 2010 picking up her bicycle, Gladys, Flavia uncovers long buried secrets UK: Orion, April 2010 of Bishop’s Lacey, a seemingly idyllic town that nevertheless has a Portugal: Planeta Manuscrito mad woman living in its woods, a prisoner-of-war with a soft spot Italy: Mondadori for the English countryside, and two childless parents with a Israel: Matar devastating secret . It’s possible Rupert Porson’s van didn’t break Germany: Blanvalet down so accidentally in this charming hamlet . It’s possible the Spain: Planeta police won’t be able to solve his murder most ingenious . It’s possible France: Lattes that his killer may help guide Flavia in way over her eleven-year- Korea: Munkakdogne old head, and to a startling discovery that reveals the chemical Poland: Vesper composition of vengeance . Brazil: Saraiva Japan: Tokyo Sogensha Coming Soon Catalan: Columna Book 3: Hang, Gypsy! Dance, Gypsy! 2011 Holland: Luitingh-Sijthoff Camped in her horse-drawn caravan at Buckshaw, a young Gypsy Mainland China: woman is charged with the abduction—and then the murder—of a Hongwenguan local child, and Flavia must draw upon her encyclopaedic knowledge Denmark: Forlaget Punktum of poisons—and Gypsy lore—to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice . Book 4: Seeds of Antiquity Book 5: Death In Camera Book 6: The Nasty Light of Day
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie The first novel in a debut crime series introduces a new breed of detective heroine in a pigtailed eleven-year-old with disturbing fascinations
96,000 words / Finished books available • A New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the 2007 Debut Dagger Award
PRAISE FOR ALAN BRADLEY’S THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE “A strong plot, involving philately, ornithology and prestidigitation, and a wonderful supporting cast make this Canadian novelist’s debut delightfully entertaining.” RIGHTS SOLD —THE GUARDIAN, UK US: Bantam Books, May 2009 US large print: Thorndike Press “This is a charming period crime novel with a grotesque gallery of UK: Orion Books, January 2009 characters reminiscent of the inhabitants of Mervyn Peake’s cult Canada: Doubleday, February 2009 Gormenghast trilogy. It’s 1950, and Flavia de Luce, a precocious Italy: Mondadori, 2009 11-year-old with a fully equipped chemistry lab at the top of Buckshaw, Israel: Matar Germany: Blanvalet, August 2009 the crumbling family seat, discovers a body in the cucumber patch. Spain: Editorial Planeta When Flavia announces this at breakfast, her news is met with France: Editions JC Lattès indifference by her wonderfully appalling older sisters Ophelia Poland: Vesper and Daphne (“How very like you”).” Korea: Munhakdongne Brazil: Editora Saraiva —DAILY MAIL, UK Japan: Tokyo Sogensha N. America English-language audio: “[P]recocious Flavia is unique. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award, Random House Audio (US) this is a fresh, engaging first novel with appeal for cozy lovers and well UK English-language audio: Magna beyond.” Catalan-language: Columna Edicions —LIBRARY JOURNAL Slovak-language: Ikar Norway: Forlaget Press “Canadian Alan Bradley’s first full-length crime novel is delightful. … Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao: Azoth Expect more from the talented Bradley.” Russia: AST Portugal: Planeta Manuscrito —BOOKLIST, starred review Holland: Luitingh-Sijthoff Serbia: Marso “Brilliant, irresistible and incorrigible, Flavia has a long future ahead of Czech Republic: Euromedia her. Bradley’s mystery debut is a standout.” Mainland Chinese: Beijing —KIRKUS, starred review Hongwenguan Croatia: Naklada Ljevak Turkey: Domingo “A rollicking debut…. enormous fun for the reader.” Lithuania: Vaga —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Arabic language: Arab Scientific Albania: Morava “It’s a rare pleasure to follow Flavia as she investigates her limited but Greece: Lyhnari Romanian-language: Editura Trei boundless-feeling world. And it’s nice to know that she’ll be back. A-.” Denmark: Forlaget Punktum —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Iceland: Forlagid
fiction 7 Catherine Bush Claire’s Head Following the critical success of The Rules of Engagement, Catherine Bush’s novel is a gripping and deeply moving glimpse into the world of migraineurs
350 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD Canada: McClelland & Stewart, Film: Susan Tolusso September 2004
• Shortlisted for The Trillium Award • A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year The Rules of Engagement 320 pages hardcover / Finished books available
The Rules of Engagement is a powerful exploration of what love is, the emotional borders we must cross in order to try to attain it, and the responsibilities inherent in its possession • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award • A Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of 2000
PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF CATHERINE BUSH “Catherine Bush’s third novel is an emotionally compelling and intellectually enthralling love story that is as much of our world as an MRI brain scan and as timeless as the Buddha. Brilliantly conceived RIGHTS SOLD and executed...Catherine Bush is as attuned to oddity and as sly, subtle, US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, brainy and deadpan as Wertmuller or Barbara Gowdy or, come to that, 2002 Thomas Mann.” Canada: HarperFlamingo, —THE GLOBE AND MAIL 2001 Holland: Het Spectrum “Her book not only holds the reader’s interest but goes far beyond the Film: Keatley Films subject of headaches to an examination of pain itself, which she succeeds Holland: Bruna, 2004 in exploring from an engaging literary perspective rather than a merely France: Editions Tryptique, scientific one.… Her prose is lucid and straightforward, well-suited to 2006 the delivery of her timeless message that yes, pain hurts, but while we feel it we are still alive.” ALSO AVAILABLE —THE TORONTO STAR Minus Time The Thief
8 fiction Abigail Carter The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow’s Transformation A 9/11 widow struggles to raise two grieving children on her own
90,000 words / Finished books available • A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
PRAISE FOR ABIGAIL CARTER’S THE ALCHEMY OF LOSS “Eloquent and honest…, a story that is unnerving, uplifting and occasionally humorous…. Heartfelt and courageous…. A remarkable book.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“What an eloquent, brave and (even) occasionally comic account Abigail RIGHTS SOLD Carter has given us of her zigzagging odyssey through the country of US: HCI Books, Fall 2008 mourning. No mourner has it easy, but Carter’s tasks were daunting—to Canada: McClelland & mother two suddenly fatherless children, to find her own way through Stewart, Spring 2008 the strife that bereavement brings to her parents and mother-in-law, and Holland: Uitgevers Mistral, to disentangle her personal grief from the national mourning. Through Fall 2008 it all, she is a generous, nuanced and admirably honest guide.” Australia: Hachette, February —KATHERINE ASHENBURG, author of 2009 The Mourner’s Dance Audio: Audible Books, July 2009 “A beautiful example of what is possible when we allow suffering to reshape our idea of happiness.” Condensation: Reader’s Digest —Maria Housden, author of Hannah’s Gift
“The Alchemy of Loss is a beautifully written account of one woman’s journey through grief. Anyone who has faced enormous loss is sure to find some of their experience articulated in Carter’s intimate and candid memoir. It is a book full of tenderness, anger and—ultimately—hope, and one I imagine one friend will give another in times of hardship and loss.” —Theo Pauline Nestor, author of How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed
non-fiction 9 Wayson Choy Not Yet Not Yet is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by a survivor who cheated death twice and reclaimed his life
60,000 words / Finished books available • A national bestseller • A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009 “Illness and recovery are sensitively and sensuously rendered, with candour, humour and authenticity. … It is a pleasure to have his continuing presence (haunted, though it is by the weight of the past and his own physical frailties) in our community of storytellers.” —GLOBE AND MAIL “Not Yet is a powerful work, an account of a life almost lost, a questioning of how a life should be lived, and an inquiry into the role of the past and its impact on the present. It is a chronicle of finding oneself RIGHTS SOLD after the deepest of traumas, in the arms and eyes of friends. It is a work Canada: Doubleday, that blends tension and sadness with joy and contemplation. And it is Spring 2009 a reminder, as if we needed one, of why Wayson Choy is beloved, as a Australia & New Zealand: writer and as a man.” Scribe Publications, 2008 —OTTAWA CITIZEN Croatia: Naklada Ljevak, “Choy ranks among the finest writers in this country…. Not Yet is 2009 another building block in Choy’s astonishing, unique, ongoing multi- French Canada: Editions volume, multi-genre portrait of who he is and how he came to be himself.” XYZ, 2012 –MACLEAN’S MAGAZINE Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood Three weeks before his fifty-seventh birthday, Wayson Choy received a surprising phone call: a mysterious woman told him that he had been adopted. A beautifully wrought memoir, Paper Shadows is inspired by this startling revelation
342 pages hardcover / Black-and-white photographs throughout / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Picador, 1997 Australia: Penguin, 1997 Canada: Penguin, 1997
• Shortlisted for the 1999 Governor General’s Award • Shortlisted for the inaugural Drainie-Taylor Prize • A 1999 Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year • A national bestseller • Winner of the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award
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All That Matters Growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s, Kiam Chen is caught in a tangle of mixed loyalties. As first son, he is trapped between the old China ways and a world that is rapidly changing
423 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Other Press, February 2007 Australia: Penguin, May 2005 Canada: Doubleday, October 2004 French Canada: Editions XYZ, October 2008
• Winner of the 2004 Trillium prize • Shortlisted for the 2004 Giller Prize • Longlisted for the 2006 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award • A national bestseller The Jade Peony Chinatown, Vancouver, of the early 1940s provides the backdrop for this fresh, uplifting novel, told through the reminiscences of the three young children of an immigrant Chinese family
238 pages hardcover / Finished books available • Winner of the 1995 Trillium Prize • Winner of the 1995 City of Vancouver Book Award • Named as one of the 100 Most Important Books in Canadian History • An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year
PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF WAYSON CHOY “In China, [Choy] tells us, a figure called the ‘dark storyteller’ reveals ‘hidden things not seen in the glare of daylight.’ Working in a new RIGHTS SOLD country and a new context, Wayson Choy has deftly continued that US: Other Press, February tradition [in] a fine… novel.” 2007 —NEW YORK TIMES Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993 “[This] is a sweet and funny novel and accomplishes so much of what we expect in good fiction. Certainly, the novel delights us with beautifully Australia: Penguin, 1997 written prose, but it does more than that, too. It renders a complex and Germany: Ullstein, 1996 complete human world, which… we have learned to love.” French Canada: Editions —BOSTON BOOK REVIEW XYZ, 2005 Holland: De Vliegende “Choy’s graceful writing seems to conjure up the very spirit of a quiet Hollander, 2008 child who notices all. [He is] a master storyteller.” —THE SEATTLE TIMES
fiction 11 Austin Clarke More The much anticipated new novel from the winner of The Giller Prize, The Commonwealth Prize, and The Trillium Prize
90,000 words / Finished books available
PRAISE FOR AUSTIN CLARKE’S More “More may stand as one of the crowning achievements of Clarke’s career.” —QUILL & QUIRE
“Clarke brings into the light the dignity and strength with which our mothers and grandmothers have borne their daily exclusions from the more genteel spaces of Canadian identity. By choosing to write Idora’s story as Toronto’s story, at the height of his literary power, Clarke boldly challenges, and transforms, Canadian sense and sensibility.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL RIGHTS SOLD US: Amistad Press, Fall “[More] is Clarke’s bravest book and one whose redemptive quality 2009 ultimately leaves the reader wanting more.” Canada: Thomas Allen, Fall —THE COURIER-MAIL, AUS 2008 Australia: HarperCollins, February 2009 About the work of AUSTIN CLARKE UK: Tindal Street Press, “Uncommonly talented, Clarke sees deeply, and transmits his visions March 2010 and perceptions so skillfully that reading him is an adventure.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“A beautiful, comic, innovative, spellbinding and tragic novel... Clarke has a matchless ear for dialogue, he is a master of several idioms. He succeeds in making his pages brilliant. In fact, The Meeting Point is a treat from beginning to end.” —BOSTON GLOBE
“Mr. Clarke is masterful at delineating the oppressive insecurities of Bernice and her friends... Bernice emerges as a large-souled heroine, whose progress one awaits in the next installment of what is planned as a trilogy.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
“A brilliant piece of writing. Clarke is magnificent in transferring to print the music, the poetry, the complete aptness of the West Indian dialogue. It is comic, tragic, it is all shades in between. And as prose it is as near poetry as prose can become.” —the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
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The Polished Hoe The entire African diaspora implodes in one murderous night on the West Indian island of Bimshire
467 pages hardcover / Finished books available • Winner of the 2003 Commonwealth Prize for Best Book • Co-winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award • Winner of the 2002 Giller Prize • Finalist for the 2004 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award • #1 national bestseller—over 17 weeks on bestseller lists • A Book Sense 76 Pick • A Costco Book Club Main Selection • A Costco “Pennie’s Picks” Tenth Anniversary Selection
PRAISE FOR AUSTIN CLARKE’S THE POLISHED HOE RIGHTS SOLD “An extraordinary tale of lust and oppression…, a beautiful light-skinned US: Amistad Press, 2003 ‘black’ woman [is] forced by the ambition of her mother and the sexual Canada: Thomas Allen, appetite of her colonial master to live a dangerous double life as October 2002 beneficiary and plaything of a society steeped in racial cruelty.” Holland: De Geus, 2005 —THE TIMES, UK UK: Tindal Street, March 2004 “Respect to Tindal Street Press for bringing to the UK this soaring and Australia: HarperCollins, sorrowful novel of Caribbean life…. Austin Clarke creates a seething October 2004 panorama of sex, race and power…. The novel’s language proves as lush, seductive—and dangerous—as its landscape.” Also Available —THE INDEPENDENT, UK The Question The Origin of Waves “The Polished Hoe’s meandering orality, its slow-burning power, Love and Sweet Food succeed movingly in asserting memory over the silent gaps in recorded The Toronto Trilogy history.” Choosing His Coffin —THE GUARDIAN, UK
“The sensuality of Clarke’s writing keeps his story alive. With vibrant characters and language, this is also one of those rare books you can smell.” —THE SYDNEY HERALD
“Out of a single act of retribution, Clarke has in fact spun an entire history, one in which freedom, love, and even languor all have their place.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“With an obvious affection for Caribbean cadence and its rum-soaked asides, Clarke unfolds Mary’s story through the meandering statement she gives to the police after she has taken gruesome revenge on her ‘master’.” —THE NEW YORKER
fiction 13 George Elliott Clarke George & Rue The winner of the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Poetry brings to life the true story of two men, members of Clarke’s own family, hanged for murder in 1949
75,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • One of the Toronto Star’s Best Reads for 2005 • Longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
PRAISE FOR GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE’S GEORGE & RUE “A lot like Faulkner… the novel sweeps you up in its narrative color and its lavish tongue and then, with stately force comes together into a solid crime story.” —O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
“This haunting first novel… is heartbreaking and beautifully rendered.” RIGHTS SOLD —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY US: Carroll & Graf, February 2006 “Vivid, raw…, wonderfully descriptive writing.” Canada: HarperFlamingo, January 2005 —USA TODAY UK: Random House/Harvill, “This is a profoundly insightful, stark, fictional account of two desperate August 2005 black men whose fruitless lives reflect the consequences of bigotry and Turkey: Dharma Yayinlari, intolerance.” November 2006 —LIBRARY JOURNAL ALSO AVAILABLE “A powerful debut, with a visceral understanding of pain and anger.” The Motorcyclist —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Sparkling, powerfully inventive prose.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Rough, uncompromising and ultimately heartbreaking.” —THE TIMES, UK
“This formidably crafted recreation of a desperate episode should win widespread acclaim.” —THE INDEPENDENT, UK
“A novel of exceptional power and imagination.” —THE NATIONAL POST
“An amazing first novel…. Mesmerizing.” —THE TORONTO STAR
14 fiction Anthony De Sa Barnacle Love Moving from the Portuguese village of Lomba da Maia, where time stands still, to the dark alleys of a sleepy, backwater Toronto in the 1970s, Barnacle Love offers a remarkable coming-of-age story
80,000 words / Finished books available • Shortlisted for the 2008 Giller Prize
PRAISE FOR ANTHONY DE SA’S BARNACLE LOVE “In Barnacle Love, a set of interlinked stories, Anthony Da Sa moves with skill and ingenuity between folk tale, myth and narratives of contemporary displacement. The tone is spare and elegiac; the stories are filled with carefully chosen details and sharply drawn characters. They have immense emotional and truthful power.” —COLM TÓIBÍN RIGHTS SOLD US: Algonquin, spring “[A] moving and engaging read, its memorable images and heart’s woes 2010 sometimes visceral in their power.” Canada: Doubleday, spring —THE GLOBE AND MAIL 2008 Portugal: Dom Quixote “This collection of linked short stories speaks poignantly about the wrenchingly opposing forces that can tear an immigrant family apart. … Unable either to fit in or stand out, [Manuel] is any immigrant, every immigrant, always reaching for a dream he cannot have, and never at home.” —THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
“Barnacle Love is a beautiful debut, haunting and elegiac, capturing lives at once as grittily real and as mythic as the sea that forms them.” —NINO RICCI, author of Testament
“Anthony De Sa’s dramatic immigrant history is revealed in this series of linked stories often operatic in their tragic proportions and folk-tale in structure. With emotional power, incidents veer daringly in mood from brutal to tender. Anthony De Sa writes of the unbreakable connections between the old and new worlds with a revelatory passion. I have no hesitation in saying his is an astonishing talent.” —WAYSON CHOY, author of All That Matters
“Barnacle Love has the irresistible allure of familiarity and conviction.” —THE TORONTO STAR
fiction 15 John Doyle The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer In this picaresque, Pete-McCarthy-meets-Nick-Hornby travelogue, John Doyle explores the world of soccer—from the small club games to the unifying force of the World Cup 80,000 words / Page proofs available Journalist, social anthropologist, memoirist, and soccer fanatic John Doyle turns his eye to the most popular sport on the planet: soccer— the beautiful game . The action moves from the first game John saw, with the Longford Town club, in 1960s-era Ireland, through soccer in the 21st century—the World Cups in 2002 and 2006, the European Championships in 2004 and 2008, only to return full circle, forty years later, as John watches Longford Town take the field again . Along the way he surveys the game the world over, concluding with the build- up to the 2010 World Cup . In between the drunken fans, the crazed RIGHTS SOLD taxi drivers, the leprechauns and the lederhosen, Doyle muses on the Canada: Doubleday, May evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon . From the petty nationalism 2010 and cultural wars of small-club soccer to the power of the World Cup to unify people from around the globe, The World Is a Ball examines soccer from a different angle . More than just a travelogue or one fan’s diary, John Doyle’s latest offers a compelling analysis of the ultimate sport, and how it has kept pace as the global village has sprung up around it . A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age In an Irish memoir like none before it, celebrated columnist John Doyle surveys childhood memories and social history, using the ever-relevant world of television to throw light on the dark, recent past of Ireland
80,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005 • A CBC Radio Top 25 Book of 2005
PRAISE FOR JOHN DOYLE’S A GREAT FEAST OF LIGHT “A gentle, funny book…. [Doyle] writes the best kind of cultural history, based not on statistics and generalizations but on first-hand experience…. [This] book crackles with unexpected angles, and is written with a kind of naïve delight. It is the ideal present for anyone RIGHTS SOLD given to pontification about the brain-deadening effects of television.” US: Carroll & Graf, January —THE SUNDAY TIMES, UK 2007 Canada: Doubleday, Fall “Doyle does a marvelous job of dissecting the cultures… A marvelous 2005 read, with keen insights and laugh-out-loud moments.” UK: Aurum, October 2006 —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review 16 non-fiction Liam Durcan García’s Heart Bringing together the central issues of our day, from terrorism to bioethics, García’s Heart is a fast-paced literary thriller that skillfully blends the science of neurology with the intricacies of criminal culpability
78,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel • A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection • A national bestseller
PRAISE FOR LIAM DURCAN’S GARCÍA’S HEART “Durcan’s outstanding debut novel walks a taut line between skillful thriller and philosophical novel of ideas. [H]e already writes with an ease reminiscent of Graham Greene. Durcan crafts a character whose background in neurology and medicine—Durcan is himself a RIGHTS SOLD neurologist—deftly informs the action…. As the plot unfolds, the novel US: Thomas Dunne Books, takes on a breathtaking immediacy that will awe readers.” November 2007 —LIBRARY JOURNAL Canada: McClelland & Stewart, April 2007 “What prompts an honorable man to commit unspeakable acts? That’s Holland: Ailantus, 2009 one of many moral conundrums considered in Durcan’s compelling Italy: L’Ancora del debut…. Durcan (A Short Journey by Car, 2004) renders satisfyingly Mediterraneano, 2009 complex characters in sharp, vivid prose…. García’s Heart beats with Taiwan (complex character a riveting blend of science and suspense, perfect for fans of David Chinese): Sun Color Baldacci.” Culture Publishing, 2009 —BOOKLIST, starred review Mainland China (simplified Chinese): Beijing Booky, “[An] audacious literary debut…. The author’s… shrewd, intricate 2009 debut reveals a multitalented artist. A fascinating construct.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Neurologist Durcan (A Short Journey by Car) dissects the ethics involved when politics, medicine and violence collide in this finely wrought novel…. Subplots involving a devious political think-tank, the long-expired romance between Patrick and Hernan’s daughter and the goings-on at Patrick’s company, provide a rich backdrop to the trial, but the centerpiece is the mélange of complex feelings.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“[O]nce I cracked open García’s Heart I couldn’t put it down…. Durcan’s debut novel was both captivating and eloquent.” —HOUR.CA
“Durcan doesn’t offer any easy answers in this searching, meticulously observed novel of moral complexity. He does offer plenty to think about.” —THE TORONTO STAR
fiction 17 Anosh Irani Dahanu Road An irreverent, epic love story about three generations of the Irani clan, Zoroastrians who fled from persecution in Iran to Bombay
80,000 words hardcover / Finished books available
“Anosh Irani has a talent for peeling back layers of history and class in brilliant tales that are wittily folkloric, devastatingly political, and flamboyantly mythological. He must come from a long line of storytellers, fire keepers and, I suspect, also magicians.” —RAWI HAGE, author of De Niro’s Game and Cockroach
“A beautiful novel, Dahanu Road is big with love and infused with the passion of Anosh Irani’s gentle yet shrewd prose.” —DONNA MORRISSEY, author of What They Wanted and Kit’s Law RIGHTS SOLD Zairos is a dissolute young landowner’s son living in the town of Canada: Doubleday, Dahanu, just outside Bombay, when his life of careless luxury is Spring 2010 brought up short by a mysterious death: the sudden suicide of Italy: Piemme, Ganpat, a tribal worker on his family’s estate . Soon he has fallen in December 2010 lust with Ganpat’s daughter Kusum, and finds himself defying taboos India (English): with their relationship . At the same time his grandfather, Shapur, HarperCollins India 2010 reveals to him the story of their family and of the land that Zairos stands to inherit .
Dahanu Road exposes the history of the relationship between the landowning Irani clan and the Warlis, local tribal people like Ganpat and Kusum who work the land for them . As Zairos’ connection with Kusum deepens, he is drawn further into the mystery of Shapur’s relationship with Ganpat and the other Warlis . Violence and hatred echo through history, and Zairos learns the terrible truth his grandfather has spent a lifetime hiding .
With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani has given us his most ambitious novel yet .
PRAISE FOR ANOSH IRANI’S FICTION “[This is a] lush debut novel. [A]n undercurrent of dark humor as well as Irani’s atmospheric evocation of Bombay enliven this compelling story.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“The end contains effervescent hope amidst all the despair through a song… which is borne out of loss, transcending reality and lifting the spirit of not only the hapless two children but the readers as well.” —THE TAMPA TRIBUNE
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The Song of Kahunsha A new novel by one of Canada’s brightest young writers about the power of the imagination to help us overcome the most formidable obstacles 70,000 words hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Milkweed Editions, Spring 2007 Portugal: Quetzal Canada: Doubleday, Spring 2006 Portugal (book club edition): Italy: Piemme, March 2007 Circulo de Leitores Spain: Alfaguara, Spring 2007 Brazil: Editora Planeta, 2007 France: Editions Philippe Rey Mainland China: Beijing Booky, Israel: Kinneret, 2007 2009 Greece: Agyra, Fall 2007 Taiwan: Commonwealth, 2009
• An Italian bestseller • A Canadian bestseller PRAISE FOR ANOSH IRANI’S SONG OF KAHUNSHA “Irani is a gifted storyteller, and [his book], Dickensian in its plot and its vivid prose, is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking.” —BOOKLIST “[Irani’s novel] is a story of hope and resilience in the face of terrible circumstances.” —THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE “Anosh Irani… reveal[s] the tender heart of human need in his devastating yet surprisingly gentle novel.” —MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE The Cripple and His Talismans A modern-day, Indian, male rendition of Alice’s journey through the looking glass 252 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Algonquin Books, Spring 2005 Taiwan: Business Weekly Canada: Raincoast, April 2004 Publications, August 2007 Germany: Europa Verlag, August 2005
“A highly imaginative novel, full of humour, poetry and insights, written in a beautiful, spare style. Throughout the narrative looms a great city, Bombay, crazily reflected in the life of one of its inhabitants who, by means baffling, heinous, desperate and often very funny, seeks to embrace the divine with both arms.” —YANN MARTEL, author of Life of Pi fiction 19 Rebecca Eckler Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-To-Be Known as the Candace Bushnell of Canada, journalist Rebecca Eckler reveals how a modern mother lives in the first of three books. Knocked Up satirizes the pregnant life in this hilarious diary confessing the highs and lows of being unexpectedly expecting
288 pages trade paperback / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Villard, April 2005 Portugal: Presença, 2006 Canada: Doubleday, May Hungary: Europa Konyvkiado 2004 Turkey: Dekolte Germany: Rowohlt, 2005 Poland: Vesper Netherlands: Sirene, 2005
Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator Book 2 in Eckler’s trilogy satirizing motherhood. New mothers, more than anyone, need a good laugh, and this is it
288 pages trade paperback / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Villard, April 2007 Hungary: Europa Kiado, Fall 2007 Canada: Key Porter, Spring 2007 Turkey: Dekolte Yayincilik, 2007 Holland: Sirene, June 2007 Poland: Vesper, 2008
Toddlers Gone Wild Rebecca Eckler is back with a third installment of witty observations from the trenches of toddlerhood
80,000 words / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Key Porter, Spring 2008 Poland: Vesper, 2008 Holland: Sirene, Spring 2009
20 non-fiction Paul Glennon Bookweird The first book in a young adult trilogy from one of Canada’s most original and acclaimed novelists
80,000 words / Finished books available
“Novels like Bookweird remind us of something that is easily lost among the mortgages and quotidian drivel: pure fun. The book’s oddities, its strange sense of play, also come with an emphasis on heroism and a dash of paradox. What a delicious concept Bookweird is, and what a fantastic writer we have in Paul Glennon.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“Glennon does a fine job in keeping the story moving, and he’s terrific at family dynamics.” —THE OTTAWA CITIZEN RIGHTS SOLD ALSO AVAILABLE Canada: Doubleday, Fall 2008 Bookweird, Part 2 Poland: Bertelsmann Media (Swiat Ksiazki) A year has passed and Norman has come to believe that his book- Israel: Yediot Aharonoth falling incidents were all in his imagination, but on a family vacation Books to his grandparents’ house Norman falls into an old Intrepid Three adventure he finds in the old house’s library . This is the work of the trickster Fuchs, the mysterious librarian who introduced Norman to the power of the Bookweird in Book 1 . Drawn into books as a child, Fuchs now lives a strange migratory experience between reality and fiction . Fuchs needs Norman’s help to create a perfect book to be his permanent home and is not beyond stealing some happy endings .
Bookweird, Part 3 Norman wakes up in a world that resembles his own, but isn’t . School has been cancelled; cats can talk; his sister owns a unicorn, and his father has disappeared . Fuchs has returned, using the Bookweird to trap Norman in this strange fantasy world, and to banish Norman’s father to a tragedy . With the help of his friend Malcolm from the Undergrowth Saga, Norman must uncover the mystery of Fuchs’ identity and his save his family from Fuchs’ dark plans .
fiction 21 Ryan Knighton C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark An intimate, irreverent, and unpredictable story of new fatherhood—from the perspective of a blind man
70,000 words / Bound galleys available
The final pages of Cockeyed, Ryan Knighton’s internationally acclaimed comic memoir about going blind and growing up, closed with a casual musing about the future, and what fatherhood could mean for a blind man whose off-beat ways tend to privilege misadventure over common sense . Within days of that book’s publication, Ryan’s wife, Tracy, was pregnant .
C’mon Papa chronicles the first two years of blind fatherhood . Through unorthodox tales and reflections—both moving and wicked—Ryan takes us inside a new family bound and illuminated RIGHTS SOLD by his particular darkness and light . Balancing the sad and Canada: Knopf, Spring 2010 bittersweet with laugh-out-loud humour, the story begins in the shadow of a miscarriage, amidst a risk of birth defects that leaves Ryan and Tracy in a state of constant worry . C’mon, Papa is Ryan’s hilarious take on the spectacle of modern fatherhood—from pretending to be a cervix in prenatal class to attempting to change diapers without being able to see . The book is as much the story of Ryan’s birth into a strange new world as it is about his child’s arrival, and what the experience taught him about family, fear, marriage, hope, and the capacity of will .
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Cockeyed Ryan Knighton’s story of his slow descent into blindness shines a new light on what we can learn about the broader world through unseeing eyes
75,000 words / Finished books available • Shortlisted for the 2007 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour • Shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association 2007 Evergreen Awards
PRAISE FOR RYAN KNIGHTON’S COCKEYED “Ultimately, what makes this wonderfully readable memoir different from others of its ilk is that the author emerges as someone you’d really like to hang out with. He’s funny, imaginative, and possessed of a lightly-worn learning that makes his cultural and literary references RIGHTS SOLD (from Oedipus’s desire for blindness to an imagined Platonic dialogue US: PublicAffairs, June 2006 on IKEA), well-judged and enlightening. But best of all, Cockeyed is UK: Atlantic Books, January an unparalleled user’s guide to blindness that will benefit the sighted 2007 as much as the sightless.” Canada: Penguin, May 2006 —THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, UK Mainland China: Shanghai Interzone Books, July “Engaging and insightful, literally shedding light on a dark and 2007 misunderstood condition.” Taiwan: JC Culture and —KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review Publishing, 2006 Germany: Rowohlt Verlag, “The book is a way to see life through another lens, an invitation to take 2007 a journey that no reader should refuse.” Film: Hotchkiss and —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review Associates, Jodie Foster directing “[This is an] engaging, often moving memoir… , a thoughtful and likeable book.” —THE SUNDAY TIMES, UK
“Ryan Knighton’s account of his growing disability is exceptional. By his own admission, Cockeyed gleefully plays up the slapstick of his situation but it’s still an eye-opening account, so to speak.” —GQ, UK
“Cockeyed is unexpectedly and frequently funny: Knighton maintains a certain gallows humour about his condition, and his total lack of self pity makes this book an enlightening and enjoyable read.” —VOGUE, UK
non-fiction 23 Lori Lansens The Wife’s Tale With sharp humour and delicate grace, The Wife’s Tale follows Mary Gooch—morbidly obese and living in denial— as she pursues her husband across the country
90,000 words / Finished books available • An Amazon August 2009 Best Read of the Month
PRAISE FOR LORI LANSEN’S THE WIFE’S TALE “Lansens’ portrait of a woman who hides behind the Kenmore as protection from life’s heartache is earthy and primal in its pain. Yet Lansens doesn’t resort to an overnight makeover to save Mary. Instead, our heroine uncovers a hidden strength she had all along. Those who loved The Girls will be pleased that Lansens is back. Highly recommended.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review RIGHTS SOLD US: Little, Brown & Co, “Mary wins us over from the start … she is privately passionate and February 2010 determined.” UK: Virago, February 2010 —THE GLOBE AND MAIL Canada: Knopf, September 2009 PRAISE FOR LORI LANSENS’ FICTION Italy: Mondadori “A tale of kindness, love, and the off things life throws at us, no matter our Holland: De Bezige Bij circumstances…. Lansens’ writing is so haunting and filled with the ache of Brazil: Bertrand Brasil dreams unrealized, the characters seem just like everyone else.” French Canada: Editions Alto —USA TODAY
“Lori Lansens’ [novel] is a ballad, a melancholy song [that] glides by like a watercolor dream, finding its poetry in dailiness and the universalities of human desire and connection…. Lansens, who has a gentle, open way of writing, makes [a] harmonious and everlasting [story].” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“A fascinating—and at times heartbreaking—read.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Extraordinarily moving: joyous, heartbreaking, and shot through with moments of dark humor.” —VOGUE
“[Lansens] skilfully tackles a tricky subject with both laugh-out-loud humor and grace.” —REDBOOK
“Extraordinary…, masterful and sophisticated[:] a multidimensional vision.” —TIME MAGAZINE
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The Girls The fictional autobiography of conjoined twins, Rose and Ruby Darlen—a breathtaking novel about the profound and transcendent love between two extraordinary sisters
135,000 words / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD World Rights ex Canada: Little, Poland: MAG Brown, May 2006 Brazil: Editora Globo Canada: Knopf, Fall 2005 Taiwan: Commonwealth Italy: Mondadori Sweden: Bra Bocker UK: Virago Serbia: Beobooks Holland: De Bezige Bij Czech Republic: BB Art Israel: Modan Portugal: Casa Das Letras Turkey: Sistem Lithuania: Alma Littera Germany: Ullstein France: Editions de l’Archipel
• A 2007 Richard & Judy Bookclub selection • A New York Times Editor’s Choice • A Wall Street Journal Summer Reads Pick for 2006 • The #1 Booksense Pick for May 2006 Rush Home Road The untold story of the descendants of the Underground Railroad
387 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD World ex-Canada: Little, Brown, Denmark: Lademann Spring 2002 Germany: Ullstein UK: Virago, June 2002 Greece: Oceanida Canada: Knopf, Spring 2002 Italy: Mondadori France: Belfond Israel: Modan Sweden: Bonnier Film: Screen Door Productions Holland: De Bezige Bij
• Shortlisted for the 2003 Regional Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book • Shortlisted for the Rogers Fiction Prize • A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year, 2002 • A Canadian bestseller
fiction 25 Sidura Ludwig Holding My Breath A bold and tender debut novel from a fresh and exciting new voice
72,000 words hardcover / Finished books available
PRAISE FOR SIDURA LUDWIG’S HOLDING MY BREATH “Sidura Ludwig’s restrained style matches the scale of her debut novel…. Holding My Breath is calm and absorbing, its themes handled with delicacy. The writing is precise and each lyrical moment is earned.” —THE TELEGRAPH, UK
“Ludwig’s first novel is a warm, deftly rendered Jewish family saga set in 1950s and 60s Canada. Beth Levy, an only child, lives with her parents above their pharmacy in Winnipeg. Maternal grandmother Baba and aunts Carrie and Sarah share a house nearby. Unmarried seamstress Carrie is Beth’s protector—thin, tense, disappointed; younger Sarah RIGHTS SOLD is rebellious and deceptively carefree. Beth worships them equally, US: Shaye Areheart, August and is curious about their dead brother Phil, a second-world-war hero. 2008 Submerged in his old diaries, she is inspired by his interest in space Canada: Key Porter, March exploration and daydreams about being an astronomer; but dominating 2007 mother Goldie has other plans, which also do not include Beth’s UK: Tindal Street Press, friendship with local boy Tim. Conflict and fiercely protected secrets and February 2008 myths are the main themes here. Nothing startling, but the characters Germany: Droemer Verlag, are distinctive and Ludwig has a talent for storytelling.” May 2010 —THE GUARDIAN, UK
“A powerful exploration of the conflict between individual needs and family ties, independence and responsibility, growing up and growing old.” —THE BOOKSELLER
“[T]hese sharply delineated women never simplify into types…. Ludwig has the gifts to launch beyond the predictable.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“There is much to admire in Sidura Ludwig’s debut novel, Holding My Breath, a coming-of-age story set in the mid-20th century: its powerful evocation of setting, compelling cast of complex female characters and affirming celebration of Jewish family life.” —THE NATIONAL POST
“In Holding My Breath, Ludwig captures the complexities of love, as it relates to personal happiness but also responsibility to family, friends and community.” —THE JEWISH INDEPENDENT
“[T]he women shine as complex characters, furious and forgiving, resistant and resigned.” —BOOKS IN CANADA
26 fiction Pearl Luke Madame Zee Based on the extraordinary true story of Canada’s most infamous cult leader
70,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • Longlisted for the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
PRAISE FOR PEARL LUKE’S MADAME ZEE “It is unfair to compare Luke’s work to that of any other writer because her voice is distinct, but the details and beauty of her opening passages, her religious attention to historical accuracy, is reminiscent of Robertson Davies’ World of Wonders…. Pearl Luke has written something that explores the terra incognita of the spirit and the disturbing possibilities of a goodness that gets sidetracked.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL RIGHTS SOLD “Luke weaves a compelling and entirely credible tale…. Her writing is Canada: HarperCollins, precise and elegant, with a measured tone that beautifully balances the May 2006 often bizarre subject matter.” Holland: De Geus, Fall 2007 —THE MONTREAL GAZETTE
“Luke provide[s] intriguing glimpses of the flourishing Spiritualist Also Available movement of the 1920s and 30s, which captivated the wealthy and Burning Ground famous alongside the titillated middle class…, affording the reader a fuller understanding of what occurred at Brother XII’s colony.” —THE VANCOUVER SUN
“[This is] a moody, sensual novel about an enigmatic and difficult woman. [It is a] fascinating read that will leave you curious.” —THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
“The sense of a place that Luke conjures, is magical, [a] resting place worthy of another dark angel fallen from history into art.” —THE CALGARY HERALD
“Luke breathes real life, with all its contradictions, into a dark and dangerous legend, and her Madame Zee is a definite, and truly fine, must-read.” —VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST
“Luke’s prose is epic in its musicality and lush detail.” —the SASKATOON STAR-PHOENIX
“Pearl Luke’s deep compassion for our human frailties is unmistakable as she explores the dangers inherent in following passion into belief. The novel is erotic, darkly funny, lusciously detailed, and very often challenging. I couldn’t put it down.” —GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ, author of The Cure for Death by Lightning
fiction 27 Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean In the frank, earthy, and engaging voice of Aristotle, The Golden Mean brings to life the world of the ancient Greek philosopher
75,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • Winner of the 2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize • Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award 2009 • Shortlisted for the Giller Prize 2009 • A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009 • A national bestseller
In 342 BC the philosopher Aristotle was persuaded by his former boyhood chum, King Philip of Macedonia, to serve as tutor to his son, the prince who has come to be known today as Alexander the Great . Along with his teenage wife and nephew, Aristotle remained in the court for seven years, during which time his ambition led him RIGHTS SOLD to participate in the ever-more-sinister intrigues of King Philip’s US: Knopf warrior court . But Philip eventually lost interest in him and began Canada: Random House, to favour others, passing over Aristotle for promotion to more Fall 2009 prestigious positions . UK: Atlantic Books Spain: Roca Editorial Prince Alexander, meanwhile, grew from a bright, affectionate boy France: Editions de la Table to an increasingly powerful and ambitious young man, resentful of Ronde his father’s bullying and womanizing . Aristotle tried to influence Brazil: Leya Brasil the prince in ethics and right conduct, but he soon realized that his Portugal: Dom Quixote teachings had grown twisted in the young man’s mind . Croatia: Sareni Ducan Taiwan: Ye-Ren Annabel Lyon’s masterful prose brings us the intimate details of Audio: Recorded Books Aristotle’s personality, including his sexuality and his curious malady . His disillusionment with his role in court reaches its nadir at the battle of Chaironea, where Philip’s victory secures Macedonian dominion over a number of Greek states, including Athens . Afterwards Aristotle is still not granted a much-coveted foreign assignment, and he feels like a failure . When the king marries a younger wife, threatening to displace Alexander with a new heir, court politics quickly bring The Golden Mean to a murderous climax .
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PRAISE FOR ANNABEL LYON’S THE GOLDEN MEAN ALSO AVAILABLE “Annabel Lyon’s Aristotle is the most fully-realized historical character The Best Thing for You: in contemporary fiction. The Golden Mean engenders in the reader Novellas the same helpless sensitivity to the ferocious beauty of the world that is Oxygen: Stories Aristotle’s disease. In this alarmingly confident and transporting debut Encore Edie: a YA Novel novel, Lyon offers us that rarest of treats: a book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and sings like an earthy romance.” —2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury: Marina Endicott, Miriam Toews and R.M. Vaughan
“Historical fiction at its best. Whether posing the eternally relevant question of what it means to live a virtuous life, detailing the gory details of an ancient battle scene or probing the relationship between master and student, Lyon authoritatively evokes a fabled time and place in the urbane and dry voice of the man judged the smartest of his age.” —MONTREAL GAZETTE
“I absolutely loved The Golden Mean. Annabel Lyon brings the philosophers and warriors, artists and whores, princes and slaves of ancient Macedonia alive, with warmth, with and poignancy. Impeccably researched and brilliantly told, this novel is utterly convincing.” —MARIE PHILLIPS, author of Gods Behaving Badly
“The Golden Mean, so full of intellect, is a pleasure to read. If excellence is our standard, then this novel will certainly flourish.” —DAVID BERGEN, Giller-winning author of The Time in Between and The Retreat
“An exhilarating book, both brilliant and profound. Annabel Lyon’s spare, fluid, utterly convincing prose pulls us headlong into Aristotle’s original mind. Only Lyon’s great-hearted intelligence could have imagined and achieved the brave ambition of this book. Vital, ferocious and true, The Golden Mean is an oracular vision of the past made present.” —MARINA ENDICOTT, author of Good to a Fault
“In Lyon’s clever hands, more than two thousand years of difference are made to disappear and Aristotle feels as real and accessible as the man next door. With this powerful, readable act of the imagination, Annabel Lyon proves that she can go anywhere it pleases her to go.” —FRED STENSON, author of The Great Karoo
PRAISE FOR ANNABEL LYON’S FICTION “Here is yearning, transgression, lust, and all the consequences. Lyon’s writing is immaculately clean and driven. These novellas bristle with heat and blood-rushing suspense. Characters wholly unexpected and eerily familiar, sharply felt. Lyon is a dazzling stylist. Here is mastery.” —LISA MOORE, author of Alligator
fiction 29 D.J. McIntosh The Witch of Babylon An antiquities thriller that is the first book in the Mesopotamian trilogy.
85,000 words / Unedited manuscript now available • Winner of the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished Crime Novel • Shortlisted for the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association (U.K.) Debut Dagger Award
The Witch of Babylon features John Madison, a New York art dealer caught up in the aftermath of the looting of the Baghdad Museum . It includes an elaborate puzzle that must be solved in order to locate a missing biblical antiquity and a spectacular lost treasure, as well as alchemy, murder, and the Mesopotamian cult of Istar . Alternating RIGHTS SOLD between war-torn Baghdad and New York, with forays into ancient Canada: Penguin, Mesopotamian culture, The Witch of Babylon takes readers deep April 2011 inside the world of Assyriology and its little-known but profound Germany: Leubbe significance for the modern world . Italy: Rizzoli Serbia: Alnari John Madison is a Turkish-American raised by his much older Bulgaria: Chetmo brother Samuel, a mover and shaker in the New York art scene who Lithuania: Gimtasis Zodis helped John get started in the business . Samuel was in Baghdad Russian language: when the war started and managed to “liberate” an important AST Publishers engraving from the National Museum during the looting . Back in New York, he is killed in a car accident and his brother John, the driver of the car, is hospitalized . After John gets out of the hospital, he learns that a former childhood playmate has stolen the engraving and hidden it while trying to sell it to the highest bidder . After the thief is killed by potential buyers, his lawyers send John a letter and USB drive with elaborate puzzles on it that provide clues to the location of the engraving . Now John is in a race against time to find the engraving with the killers close on his heels . His quest takes him, against his will, back to Baghdad and an underground treasure trove unknown to the world .
The Mesopotamian Trilogy No other antiquities thrillers feature Mesopotamian mythology . Book Two of The Mesopotamian Trilogy focuses on the Neo-Babylonian Empire and Book Three focuses on the Sumerians and the origin of angels . With John Madison as the protagonist, these novels marry ancient Mesopotamian history with different aspects of Hermeticism and the occult in a contemporary setting .
30 fiction Leilah Nadir The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family with photos by Farah Nosh In this heart-wrenching memoir, Leilah Nadir witnesses the long, drawn-out destruction of the place that birthed civilization. What she is driven to tell is the story of those whose voices have been caught, strangled, muted: the voice of the everyday Iraqi civilian, living through foreign invasion and now civil war
80,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • Winner of the 2008 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness
PRAISE FOR LEILAH NADIR’S THE ORANGE TREES OF BAGHDAD RIGHTS SOLD “Nadir’s strength as a writer lies in her passionate descriptions of the Canada: Key Porter, smallest detail. There’s a real immediacy, even an urgency, about The September 2007 Orange Trees of Baghdad, bolstered by her oft-repeated question, What Italy: Cairo Editore, is the fate of Iraq now?… This is a powerful and important book.” August 2007 —THE VANCOUVER SUN British Commonwealth: Scribe Publications, “It’s hard to avoid the reality, as one reads this poignant memoir, that November 2007 Nadir’s roots are the roots of our own civilization.” France: Editions Payot & —MONTREAL MIRROR Rivage, April 2009 “Leilah Nadir’s The Orange Trees of Baghdad reminds us that Iraq is not just a war; it is a country. Lovingly woven together from inherited memory and family lore, her Iraq is infinitely more vivid, more textured, and more heartbreaking than what we see nightly on the news. In the debates about winning and losing the war, this is a book about what loss really means—the theft of history and of homeland.” —NAOMI KLEIN, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
“Leilah Nadir’s insightful, searching story about her Iraqi roots, family, exile, and survival, told in absorbing and moving language, reveals the great civilization now under assault and the human beings under perpetual blast, condemnation, and bombardment.” —GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE
“The Orange Trees of Baghdad is a stunning book, the best I’ve read in the past year. Leilah Nadir takes us with her in her quest to meet the members of her family whose lives have been uprooted by war. In the process, we are drawn into the heart of the world’s most ancient civilization. In the haunting, dream-like pages of this book, we discover that as Baghdad is destroyed, the roots of our own deepest past are being torn asunder. Hypnotically readable.” —JAMES LAXER
non-fiction 31 Dr. Shafiq Qaadri The Testosterone Factor: A Practical Guide to Improving Vitality and Virility, Naturally The ultimate vitality manual for the millions of baby boomer men grappling with the physical, emotional, and sexual challenges presented by midlife: andropause, or the male menopause
80,000 words hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Marlowe & Co., Spring 2006 Mainland China: Shanghai Canada: Doubleday, Spring Interzone Books, Fall 2007 2006 France: Editions de l’Homme, Russia: Ripol Classic, Fall 2007 Fall 2007
Adria Vasil Ecoholic [When You’re Addicted to the Planet] You don’t have to give up shaving or chain yourself to a tree to be green. Adria Vasil knows that it’s as simple as figuring out which easy, everyday decisions can turn you into a full-blown ecoholic
60,000 words, trade paperback / Finished books available
PRAISE FOR ADRIA VASIL’S ECOHOLIC “Everything you need to know to make green, non-toxic, Earth-friendly consumer choices—and to be a bang-up planetary citizen—is in this book. Its comprehensiveness is mind-boggling! My fondest hope is that a well-thumbed copy becomes a fixture in every Canadian home.” —RICK SMITH, Executive Director, Environmental Defence RIGHTS SOLD US: W. W. Norton, Fall 2009 “This book is for people who want to do something to lighten their Canada: Vintage Canada, impact on the planet. The small steps cost us little in the way of effort, June 2006 money or time, but the cumulative effects can be enormous.” —DAVID SUZUKI ALSO AVAILABLE Ecoholic Home: The Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One Roof
32 non-fiction Eden Robinson Monkey Beach An astonishing first novel that takes us on a journey into the spirit world
95,000 words hardcover / Finished books available • Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award • Finalist for the 2000 Giller Prize and the 2000 Governor General’s Award for Fiction • Winner of the B.C. Book Prize for Fiction
PRAISE FOR EDEN ROBINSON’S MONKEY BEACH “Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut.” —THE TIMES, UK
“Monkey Beach is far more than a novel of psychological transformation, though it is that. It is, in the best sense, a thriller, a spiritual mystery…. RIGHTS SOLD The novel also contains some of the truest passages I have read on what US: Houghton Mifflin, 2002 it is like to be a teenager…. Puberty has rarely received such a perceptive UK: Little, Brown, 2001 and unflinching gaze. You can tell Monkey Beach is an original because Canada: Knopf, 2000 you actually want to read it again. [This is a] startlingly accomplished Holland: Prometheus, 2004 first novel.” France: Albin Michel, 2002 —THE WASHINGTON POST Estonia: Hotger Film: Eagle Eye Films “Although death hangs like a Pacific mist over these pages, Robinson, France (Pocket Book herself a Haisla, fills this edifying book with the stuff of the living, from Reprint): J’ai lu the tiniest details of Haisla life to the mightiest universals of tradition, desire and family love.” Also Available —THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Traplines Blood Sports “Robinson’s paean to the Pacific Northwest and Haisla culture, embodied in her stout-hearted hero and all her other vital and complex characters, does what good literature does best: It moves meaningfully from the particular to the universal and back again. And Robinson performs this enlightening feat with genuine insight, wry humor and translucent lyricism.” —THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Robinson has created a convincing, well-written work, filled with the sadness of a disappearing way of life and a family’s grief.” —the SEATTLE TIMES
“As a writer she pays attention to the significance of small things: crows, Kraft Dinners, soapberry mash. As a storyteller she captures a place and its inevitable impact on the people who live there. Her descriptions of the Canadian Pacific wilderness are sensual and evocative. The result is a sort of magical realism firmly rooted in the familiar trappings of the real world.” —the PORTLAND OREGONIAN
fiction 33 Kerri Sakamoto One Hundred Million Hearts A story of love and memory, patriotism and sacrifice, and guilt and complicity in the context of war
275 pages hardcover / Finished books available
RIGHTS SOLD US: Harcourt Brace, January 2004 French Canada: Editions les Canada: Knopf, Fall 2003 Allusifs, 2004 Holland: Ambo/Anthos, 2004
The Electrical Field A masterful and elegant story of passion, memory and regret, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past, and into our communal response to war
256 pages hardcover / Finished books available • Winner of the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book • Shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award • Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize • A 1998 Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year • Nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
RIGHTS SOLD US: Norton Japan: DHC Corporation Canada: Knopf, 1998 French Canada: Boreal, 2002 UK: Macmillan Czech Republic: Talpress, 2006 Germany: List Romania: Nemira, 2006 Holland: Ambo/Anthos, 2004
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PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF KERRI SAKAMOTO “Painstakingly precise…, Sakamoto is masterful in showing us the world through her [heroine’s] eyes.” —THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Kerri Sakamoto’s restrained narrative generates extraordinary tension, making this heartbreaking book a mesmerizing tour de force.” —THE WASHINGTON POST
“[A] poetic, lushly written account of psychologically twisted lives caught up in the wake of a hidden history… Sakamoto has written the most important Asian-American novel to come along in years.” —SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
“[Sakamoto’s work] is a balancing act, a feat that marks Sakamoto as a writer to watch.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“America’s inexhaustible supply of good writing has turned out another impressive debut in Kerri Sakamoto’s new novel…. For those who like their books to have that subtle, Peter Hoeg feel, here is a burning, enigmatic addition to the genre.” —THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, UK
“A beautifully written… novel about a woman’s awakening.” —THE TIMES, UK
“Kerri Sakamoto has achieved a dazzling portrait of the disturbed mind.” —THE LITERARY REVIEW, UK
“A highly readable and accomplished novel.” —THE EVENING STANDARD, UK
fiction 35 Sandra Sabatini Dante’s War For the first time in the English language, Sandra Sabatini brings to life the experience of World War II from the point of view of ordinary people on the axis side—two young Italian lovers, Dante and Angelina
75,000 words / Finished books available
PRAISE FOR SANDRA SABATINI’S DANTE’S WAR “Dante’s War is written in the fluid prose that derives from careful crafting. It lifts off the page like a song, both mythic and lyrical. A prize-worthy novel, it is a new take on an old war, both disturbing and profound, ethereal and earthbound. Like Angelina, who “was something the foaming sea would crest against,” Sabatini shows remarkable strength and resilience in telling this captivating tale.” —The GLOBE AND MAIL RIGHTS SOLD “Dante’s War is beautifully crafted and written. What I admire about Canada: Key Porter, Spring it most is that Sandra Sabatini understands how things work: fearsome 2009 machines and weapons of war, national governments and small towns, and—most impressively—the human heart.” —PAUL QUARRINGTON, award-winning author of The Ravine and King Leary
“Sabatini’s accomplishment is to show us with sympathy the lives of “enemy” soldiers and civilians, whose native suspicion and stubborn allegiance to the soil first endanger them and ultimately save them, from the ravages of other peoples’ wars.” —the NATIONAL POST
“During a bitter war, a sweet love story... Sabatini is a magician who makes innocence and experience coexist.” —ANNABEL LYON, author of Oxygen and The Best Thing for You
36 fiction Dr. Cathryn Tobin The Lull-A-Baby Sleep Plan A pediatrician’s breakthrough discovery revolutionizes how parents should put their babies to bed. Dr. Tobin’s book stops a baby’s sleeping problems before they start, ensuring a good night’s sleep for both the baby and the parents
80,000 words hardcover / Finished books available
PRAISE FOR DR. CATHRYN TOBIN’S THE LULL-A-BABY SLEEP PLAN “Parenting is a 24/7 job, and it can get pretty lonely at 3 a.m., especially if you’re the kind of parent who can’t bear to let your child cry himself to sleep. That’s why The Lull-A-Baby Sleep Plan is so wonderful. Dr. Cathryn Tobin not only has a gentle, caring approach to your baby but also has great empathy for what you’re going through. New parents can help their infant learn healthy sleep habits from the get-go, and those who’ve missed the early window of opportunity can backtrack RIGHTS SOLD and solve bedtime battles with an older child. Drawing on her years World English (ex-Canada): of experience as a midwife, a pediatrician and a mom, Dr. Tobin Rodale, August 2006 illustrates her techniques with a wide variety of sleep problems. This is Canada: Wiley, August 2006 one book that should be in every parent’s library.” France: Editions de —MARY MOHLER, Editor-at-Large, Parents magazine l’Homme, Fall 2007 Romania: House of Guides, “Dr. Tobin’s important and highly readable book offers parents 2008 medically sound and scientifically based sleep strategies that are attuned to the needs of both babies and parents. By teaching parents how to activate their baby’s relaxation response, Dr. Tobin’s book offers a humane alternative to the ‘letting them cry’ method. Her light-hearted approach and easy to follow recommendations will foster confidence and competence for any new (and exhausted!) parent. The Lull-A-Baby Sleep Plan gives parents the greatest gift of early childhood—SLEEP!” —DEBRA PHILLIPS HAUSER, Ph.D., Lecturer, Child Study Cen- ter, Yale University School of Medicine
“Finally, a research-based solution to the age-old problem of getting Baby to sleep! Drawing on her extensive knowledge of infant neurological development as well as her years of experience as a practicing pediatrician, Dr. Tobin has created an approach that is simple, effective—and compassionate…. This book should be required reading for all new parents!” —LINDA ACREDOLO, Ph.D., co-author of the bestsellers Baby Signs, Baby Minds and Baby Hearts
“Dr Tobin’s breakthrough discovery will revolutionize how new parents put their babies to bed! Read this book and sleep better tonight.” —MICHELE BORBA, Ed.D., author of 12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know and Parents DO Make a Difference
non-fiction 37 Cathleen With Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison A harrowing, intense first novel told in the mesmerizing voice of an imprisoned teenage girl in the Far North
85,000 words / Finished books available
Canada’s Northwest Territories, which straddle the Arctic Circle east of Alaska, are rich in natural resources, especially oil, which has attracted an influx of white men from the South . In the Western Arctic, they work the rigs and create children with the local Inuvialuit (Eskimo, or “‘sko”) and Gwich’in (Indian) women . Children like Trista, who tells her story in this novel . Fifteen-year-old Trista gives birth to a daughter named Faith, born deaf and nearly blind, in the Polar Girls’ Prison in Jackfish Bay, NWT . Like many other impoverished adolescents in her rural northern community, Trista’s young life is already caught in a decline of sexual abuse, drunkenness, and failed motherhood . When RIGHTS SOLD her partner Tyler enters her life, he teaches her to dream of a better Canada: Penguin, January future and a truer love . Trista sees her relationship with Tyler and 2009 her new pregnancy as a fresh start . But in the course of one night while Tyler is away in Yellowknife, a reunion with an old boyfriend entangles Trista in a convenience store robbery and murder . Having Faith is the story of how Trista copes with the tragedy of her young life, comes to understand herself, and finds hope . Pulled down by the misery of her situation, Trista starts cutting and is put under solitary confinement, away from her baby, when her self-destructive habits are discovered . Her salvation comes from the compassion of prison counsellors, visits from her best friend, and her love for her baby . While her dream of reuniting her family becomes more and more distant as weeks go by without hearing from Tyler, she reflects on her lost childhood in language that is unpretentious and unsentimental . Cathleen With has written an extraordinary, unforgettable story that is jarring in its harsh portrayal of poverty and prison life . No other novel has ever told us of the lives lived amidst the clash of cultures in this remote region .
“With balances Trista’s instability and crudeness of speech with a lyric sensibility…. The heightened language and the influence of native mythology are incorporated seamlessly into the narration, and deepen the novel without undermining the plausibility of Trista’s voice…. [T]he emotional force of this novel is undeniable.” —QUILL AND QUIRE
“With offers a fully realized and authentic narrator beset with tremendous personal and cultural obstacles. Trista’s deftly portrayed sense of delusion, despair and hope is ultimately both moving and unsettling.” —THE NATIONAL POST
38 fiction CLIENTs
Kevin Armstrong Rebecca Eckler Oscar Martens
Anita Rau Badami Colin Ellard Gary Mason
Jean Baird Sean Fine D.J. McIntosh
Judy Fong Bates Valerie Fortney Steven Mayoff
Steven Benstead Vicki Gabereau Leo McKay
The Bittergirls Paul Glennon Barbara Messamore
George Bowering Frances Greenslade Bill Morrison
Rick Boychuk Tom Hansen Susan Musgrave
Alan Bradley Madeleine Harris-Callway Leilah Nadir
Paula Brook Jacqueline Honnet Candida Pugh
Catherine Bush Anosh Irani Dr. Shafiq Qaadri
Robert Calder Joshua Key Susanne Reber
Claire Cameron Ryan Knighton Stephen Reid
Warren Cariou Gitanjali Kolanad Robert Renaud
Abigail Carter Frank Koller Eden Robinson
Susan Catto Dr. Meir Kryger Sandra Sabatini
Okey Chigbo Dr. David Kuhl Lake Sagaris
Wayson Choy Marjorie Lamb Kerri Sakamoto
Austin Clarke Barbara Lambert Theresa Tedesco
George Elliott Clarke Lori Lansens Richard Teleky
Ken Coates Annette Lapointe Dr. Cathryn Tobin
Joanna Cockerline Jose Latour John Turley-Ewart
Valerie Compton Evelyn Lau Adria Vasil
Afua Cooper Sidura Ludwig Robert Ward
Anthony De Sa Pearl Luke Cathleen With
John Doyle Jeanette Lynes
Liam Durcan Annabel Lyon
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