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Mieko Kawakami Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd Europa editions MARCH-JULY 2021 Europa editions Distributed by PGW Heaven Mieko Kawakami Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd From the best-selling author of Breasts and Eggs and international cause célèbre Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the power of friendship and solidarity to combat life’s challenges. Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old school student subjected to bullying by his classmates. MIEKO The only person who understands his ordeal is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at KAWAKAMI the hands of her tormenters. Each finds in the other not only solace but a unique sensibility that opens HEAVEN up new perspectives on their predicaments. A NOVEL Revelatory, raw, and incisive, Kawakami’s portrayals of two young people in need are drawn with profound tenderness and framed within a nuanced exposition on the effects and of violence and the importance of Europa editions solidarity. Breasts and Eggs announced Kawakami as a captivating storyteller, and as an author committed Marketing & Publicity to expanding the boundaries of contemporary • Spring 2021 Lead Title Japanese literature. Heaven stands as a dazzling • Paperback of Breasts and Eggs publishing in March confirmation of her literary talent and broad appeal • A third Kawakami novel, The Night Belongs to Lovers, coming soon. and will find favor with readers of the best • Dedicated Publicist for press reviews, features, interviews, contemporary literary fiction. influencer campaign • High-profile national and regional media campaign • Galleys and e-galleys (Edelweiss, Netgalley) widely available • Author and translators available for interviews and features • Indie focus: regional fall show promotion, Indie Next List campaign, bookseller outreach, blurbs Comp titles: Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami; The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami; Death in Her AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh; The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa BESTESELLER BREASTS AND EGGS On-sale: May 25 • Fiction • Hardcover • 9781609456214 RETURNS WITH A NEW NOVEL 5.25 x 8.25 in. • 192 pages • US $23.00/Can $31.00 • ebook isbn: 9781609456306 2 Mieko Kawakami Born in Osaka prefecture in 1976, Kawakami began her career as a singer and songwriter before making her literary debut in 2006. In 2008, Kawakami pub- lished Breasts and Eggs as a short novella. It won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prestigious literary honor, and earned praise from acclaimed writers Yoko Ogawa and Haruki Murakami. The newly expanded Breasts and Eggs, her first novel to be published in Eng- lish, was a Vogue, The Millions, and LitHub most an- ticipated book of the year. Kawakami lives in Japan. “I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs.” —Haruki Murakami “Original and deeply moving… Breasts and Eggs is a gift.” • Lives of working-class women are often at the center —Laura van den Berg of Kawakami’s novels—reminiscent of authors like Lucia Berlin, Stephanie Danler, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joy “Kawakami considers the agency that women exert over their Williams, George Saunders bodies…with humor and empathy.”—The New Yorker • Blurbs solicited from Porochista Khakpour, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Katie Kitamura, “A unique, direct voice—almost every page contains sentences John Freeman, Rivka Galchen, Siddhartha Deb that stop me in my tracks.”—Marta Bausells, LitHub “Will transcend cultural barriers and enchant readers.” —Alina Cohen, New York Observer NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK BREASTS AND EGGS • 9781609456702 • ebook: 9781609455880 “Breasts and Eggs is fearless in its demand for accountability, transcendent in its honesty.”—PopMatters 3 The Promise Damon Galgut “Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa’s transition… in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee” —Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose that could only come from the pen of literary giant and Booker Prize-shortlisted author, Damon Galgut. The Promise is the story of the Swart family— theirs is a story of failed possibilities, much like the history of their country. Haunted by an unmet promise made to the family servant, the well-to-do Swarts lose touch after the death of their mother. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the charged atmosphere of post-apartheid South Africa in a family drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history. Marketing & Publicity • E-galleys available on Edelweiss, NetGalley, direct delivery; • Physical galleys available for sales force & booksellers • Finished copy mailings via Europa and PGW sales reps • Major national and regional media campaign • Feature title at fall regional ABA shows • Author available for virtual events and interviews On-sale: April 6 • Fiction • Hardback • 9781609456580 5.25 x 8.25 in. • 272 pages • US $25.00/Can $34.00 • ebook isbn: 9781609456597 4 Damon Galgut Galgut’s 2003 novel The Good Doctor won the Com- monwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region) and was © XXXX shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In a Strange Room (Europa, 2010) was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013, he was inducted into the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa. “Written in spare, controlled prose, Damon Galgut’s writing “Like Graham Greene’s work, this quiet, affecting novel will has a powerful cumulative effect that is on one level hard and attract those haunted by the shadow of colonialism.” comfortless, yet somehow also tender and humane.” —Publishers Weekly on The Good Doctor —The New York Times “It’s no wonder that the South African novelist Damon Galgut • A timely discussion of race relations in South Africa that is has won a place on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize... universal In a Strange Room is a gripping read, laced throughout with • Author Damon Galgut has been shortlisted for the Booker powerful emotional truth and Damon Galgut’s extraordinary vision.”—The Independent Prize and Walter Scott Prize, and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize—a superb writer to watch “Galgut spares no details and his prose, suspended between • A gripping family drama that plays out against the backdrop horror and comedy, is almost unbearably powerful.” of post-apartheid South African history —The Guardian ALSO AVAILABLE ARCTIC SUMMER WINNER OF THE 2010 BOOKER • 9781609452346 • ebook: 9781609452360 PRIZE IN A STRANGE ROOM • 9781609450113 • ebook: 9781609450199 Damon Galgut In a Strange Room Europa editions 5 Remote Sympathy Catherine Chidgey An exquisitely readable and devastatingly beautiful polyphonic novel of domestic drama and human connection set in Germany during the second world war and its aftermath. Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all, right on their doorstep, are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe. Frau Hahn and the other officers’ wives living in this small commu- nity can order anything they desire, whether new curtains made from the finest French silks, or furniture designed to the most exacting specifications. Life here in Buchen- wald would appear to be idyllic. Lying just beyond the forest that surrounds them—so close and yet so remote—is the looming presence of a so-called work camp. Frau Hahn’s Europa husband, SS Sturmbannführer Dietrich Hahn, is to take editions up a powerful new position as the camp’s administrator. As the prison population begins to rise, the job becomes ever more consuming. Corruption is rife at every level, the supplies are inadequate, and the sewerage system is under increasing strain. When Frau Hahn is forced into an unlikely and poignant alliance with one of Buchenwald’s prisoners, Dr. Lenard Weber, her naïve ignorance about what is going on so Marketing & Publicity nearby is challenged. • National and regional Media • Dedicated Publicist for press reviews, features, interviews, influencer campaign A tour de force about the evils of obliviousness, Remote • Key Library Marketing Campaign Sympathy compels us to question our continuing and will- • Author available for interviews ful ability to look the other way in a world that is once • Book Trailer and other digital author assets available more in thrall to the idea that everything—even facts, • E-galleys (Edelweiss, Netgalley, direct download) and galleys widely available truth and morals—is relative. On-sale: May 4 • Fiction • Hardcover • 9781609456276 5.25 x 8.25 in. • 528 pages • US $26.00/Can $35.00 • Sales: US & Canada • ebook isbn: 9781609456283 6 Catherine Chidgey Chidgey is an award-winning and best-selling New Zealand novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, In a Fishbone Church, won the Betty Trask Award, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Golden Deeds was Time Out’s book of the year, a Best Book in the LA Times Book Review and a Notable Book in the New © HELEN MAYALL © HELEN York Times Book Review. Her fourth novel, The Wish Child, was published in 2016 and won the 2017 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, New Zealand’s richest liter- ary prize. “Chidgey could tackle any subject and produce something wonderful from it. She has that gift of the imagination that finds metaphor, contiguity and paradox wherever she looks.” —New Zealand Herald “Chidgey is a gifted writer, and in The Transformations, her confident, commanding prose and vivid atmospherics hold the attention.”—The Guardian “The Wish Child [tells] a richly imaginative, memorable story.”—The Times, UK • For readers of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The German House by Annette Hess, The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer, Suite Française by Irene Némirovsky, Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan, Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life and Transcription.
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