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FRANKFURT 2013 OTHER PRESS INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE MISSION STATEMENT WORLD OTHER PRESS publishes literature from America and around the world that repre­sents writing at its best. We feel that the art of storytelling has become paramount today in challenging readers to see and think differently. We know that good stories are rare to come by: they should retain the emotional charge of the best classics while speaking to us about what matters at present, without complacency or self-indulgence. Our list is tailored and selective, and includes everything from top-shelf literary fiction to cutting-edge nonfiction— whether it’s political, social, or cultural—as well as a small collection of groundbreaking professional titles.

Judith Gurewich Publisher IN PURSUIT OF MONSTERS JULIAN BORGER FROM IN PURSUIT OF MONSTERS

The three men had breakfast on a broad tree stump, The story of a remarkable manhunt and the JULIAN BORGER was born and Drljaca took his rod and reel out on a small courageous action of a handful of individuals in in 1961. He is The dinghy for a spell, watched by his son and Milanovi committed to international justice Guardian’s diplomatic editor and from a sun-dappled bluff. A morning of simple rustic pleasures. writes its Global Security blog. It was almost ten o’clock when Drljaca pulled his boat out of Fifty years after the Nuremberg trials, the worst He has covered more than the lake. Jumping out on the sandy beach, he noticed almost im- genocidal atrocities in Europe since World War II took a dozen wars, including the mediately that something was not quite right. He could no longer place during the Balkan Wars, when thousands of Bosnian conflict, while living in see Sinisa or Spiro, and suddenly became aware of movement Bosnians were massacred. The International Criminal Sarajevo from 1994 to 1 9 9 7. in the fields on either side of him. Men with guns were walking Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was formed in He joined in 1993, “towards him, calling his name. 1993, at the height of the wars, to bring justice to those after several years as a BBC radio The men were British soldiers, members of D Squadron, the 22 who committed crimes against humanity, and created and television reporter in Africa, SAS Regiment, who had been lying in ditches for a week waiting a list of 161 war criminals. and has been a U.S. correspon- for Drljaca to turn up at his favorite fishing spot, and then for Initially the ICTY was controversial, underfunded, dent since 1998. him to wander away from his family. Sinisa and Milanovi were and largely unrecognized—the major powers wanted to forced to the ground while three squadron members advanced obtain justice, yet no one was willing to get their hands on Drljaca from different directions. One of them carried in his dirty. Eventually, because of the relentlessness of the pocket a “sealed” indictment, issued months before in secret in prosecutors, diplomats, and investigators of the ICTY, The Hague by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former they received support from the British government, and Yugoslavia (ICTY). a team of SAS agents was dispatched into the Balkans, on a manhunt that would last more than a decade. Grippingly reconstructed by The Guardian’s dip- lomatic editor, Julian Borger, In Pursuit of Monsters Fall 2015 Pages: 300 approx. investigates the heroes, villains, and wider international Manuscript available May 2014 repercussions of the Bosnian genocide and its after- Rights: World math—from war criminals who perfectly embody the Nonfiction banality of evil, to determined ICTY investigators work- Agent: The Wylie Agency, Sarah Chalfant ing on a shoestring budget, to politicians and diplomats ([email protected]) who radically changed their own foreign policies.

2 3 RECAPITULATIONS VINCENT CRAPANZANO

FROM RECAPITULATIONS

Praise for That memories, like A distinguished anthropologist’s reflexive VINCENT CRAPANZANO is The Harkis: dreams, are continually exploration of the nature of memory an author and Distinguished revised, despite a sense Professor of Comparative “Combining interviews, literary of their fixity, is obvious. What is less How do we remember? Is the act of remembering Literature and Anthropology at analysis, and psychoanalytical obvious (at least for me) is that each related to the creation of a responsive self? How do the CUNY Graduate Center. He insights, Vincent Crapanzano act of remembering falls between time our memories resonate with everyday experience? In has published articles in major traces the ways in which betrayal past and time future: an unknown Recapitulations, author and distinguished professor periodicals and academic and powerlessness have played or excluded past and an unacknowl- Vincent Crapanzano attempts to answer these ques- journals such as The American out in the lives of the Harkis and edged future that loops back onto tions by reflecting on his personal experi­ences as an An­thropologist, Les Temps their children.” —Times Literary the “memory,” configuring it with anthropologist, literary theorist, and critic. Modernes, The New Yorker, “ and The Supplement the moment of remembrance. But the At once an autobiography and an ethnographic memory, however transformed, is not study, this book brilliantly explores the author’s life— Times Liter­ary Supplement. Praise for without effect, for it casts, it tones, the from his earliest­ memories to thoughts about death— His previous books include Serving the Word: present—the rememberer, his or her through seemingly disparate recollections drawn from The Fifth World of Foster Ben- circumstances, his or her real or fanta- his wide range of experi­ences. Crapanzano uses these nett (Viking), The Hamadsha “Crapanzano takes the Funda- sized interlocutors, in a way that may recollections as a way of questioning­ our cultural (University of California Press), mental­ists as he finds them and be desired or may negate that desire. and psychological assumptions, and in the process, Tuhami (University of Chicago expounds the manifestations of Memories gyre like a top. calls attention to the limits they impose on our self- Press), Hermes’ Dilemma their literalism without condescen- understanding, imagination, and interpretations of and Hamlet’s Desire (Harvard sion or contradiction.” —New York reality. Like Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques University Press), Serv­ing the Review of Books and C. G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections, this Word (The New Press), Imagi- Fall 2015 unique memoir is a beau­tifully written guide to the native Horizons: An Essay in Pages: 300 approx. hidden realms of personal memory and experience. Literary-Philosophical Anthro- Manuscript available Sept 2014 Rights: World pology (University of Chicago Nonfiction Press), and The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals (Uni- versity of Chicago Press).

4 5 THE STORY OF JIM GRANT, UNICEF, AND THE IDEALIST: THE SAVING OF 25 MILLION YOUNG LIVES ADAM FIFIELD

FROM THE IDEALIST

Praise for In the fall of 1980, Jim The story of how Jim Grant reorganized, ADAM FIFIELD is a journalist A Blessing Over Ashes: Grant invited several hun- streamlined, and energized UNICEF into an from Vermont. His work has dred UNICEF staff mem- extremely effective humanitarian organization ap­peared in The New York “A vivid, textured memoir with bers to a three-day retreat at an airy, Times, , echoes of Huckleberry Finn and tranquil conference center in upstate In 1979, Jim Grant was nominated by President The Christian Science Moni- Sophie’s Choice… Told with hu- New York. People weren’t sure what to Jimmy Carter to head UNICEF. During the course of his tor, The Chicago Sun-Times, mor and emotion in an almost expect from the new boss. Exceedingly fifteen years in office, he made the organization what The Village Voice, Philadelphia cinematic fashion, this fascinating friendly, he often flashed a disarming it is today: he quadrupled its immunization rates, saved Magazine, and The Philadelphia tale is ideal for a broad range of smile framed by deep parentheses. His at least 25 million children by spreading basic care to Inquirer, where he was a staff readers.” —Kirkus Reviews radiant enthusiasm bordered on almost the widest number of countries, hired a staff of world- writer. He is also the author of “ A Blessing Over Ashes (Wil- childlike giddiness. Those in the room class specialists to “give UNICEF a brain,” and created were curious about what he would say, programs that continue to save thousands of lives every liam Morrow, 2000), a memoir and perhaps slightly apprehensive. single day. Years later, Carter said that nominating Grant about his Cambodian­ foster Jim Grant walked to the podium to lead UNICEF was one of his greatest accomplish- brother. In 2007, he became and started speaking. What he planned ments. the deputy director of editorial for UNICEF, he said, was a “quantum At first Grant’s staff thought he was crazy and over- and creative services at the leap.” zealous, but they came to revere him when they saw U.S. Fund for UNICEF. his ceaseless effort and optimism. He accomplished through a sheer force of will what everyone thought was impossible, by tirelessly working eighteen hours a day, forming truces with political enemies so that their Fall 2014 countries could be immunized, entering dangerous war Pages: 320 approx zones, and boldly raising awareness and money. The first Manuscript available Dec 2013 Rights: World biography of Grant with full cooperation from his family Nonfiction and former colleagues, The Idealist tells the story of a Agent: Larry Weissman Literary, visionary who broke the rules, prodded or sidestepped Larry Weissman the sluggish UN bureaucracy, and with single-minded ([email protected]) determination made the world a better place.

6 7 THE COST OF COURAGE

FROM THE COST OF COURAGE

Praise for It is almost four o’clock A gripping account of one family’s remarkable CHARLES KAISER is an au- The Gay Metropolis: on a gray afternoon role in the French Resistance thor, journalist, and blogger. when the black Citroën He was born in Washington “Charles Kaiser aims to convey Traction Avant pulls up in front of a In Paris during World War II, an oppressive mood DC and grew up there and in not only what happened during drab apartment building on the rue de descended­ upon the occupied city—food and fuel Albany, New York; Dakar, Sen- the period but what it felt like at la Santé. The low-slung, front-wheel- were scarce, street signs suddenly appeared in egal; London, England; and the time… A summoning up of drive Citroën is the favorite of French German, and every day, Nazi soldiers paraded down Windsor, Connecticut. He is a traumas past, a lament for paradise gangsters, but now it has an even more the Champs-Elysées. French citizens had to choose former staff writer for The New lost.” menacing pedigree: it is the official car between enduring these humilia­tions or collaborating, York Times, The Wall Street —New York Times (A Notable of the German secret police. as many did, and taking action. The Cost of Courage Journal, and . His “ articles have also appeared in Book of the Year) Two Gestapo agents in black is about three siblings, Christiane, Jacqueline, and leather raincoats jump out onto the André Boulloche, who joined the Resistance. They New York, Vanity Fair, Rolling “Brisk, splashy, dishy… Kaiser sidewalk on the Left Bank of Paris. risked their lives delivering secret messages, rescuing Stone, The Washington Post, is a gifted popular historian who Trailing them is a single prisoner, a downed British pilots, and carrying out sabotage. The Guardian, and Vogue, manages to suggest something of short, twenty-year-old Frenchman After the war, despite their heroism, they never among many other publica- the flavor of gay life in different de- named Jacques. The boy’s nearly-limp spoke about their experiences with their children—or tions. His previous books, cades and to convey effectively the body broadcasts defeat, but there are anyone else—because “it was necessary to turn the 1968 in America (Weidenfeld gradual changes in gay peoples’ no marks on him suggesting a beating. page.” Christiane sev­ered her connection with all of & Nicolson, 1988) and The Gay self-images and social status.” her friends in the Resistance. André, who later had Metropolis (Houghton Mifflin, —Washington Post a brilliant career in politics until his un­timely death in 1997), remain in print from a plane crash, was grimly private about the number Grove Press. Fall 2014 tattooed on his forearm. In this work of nonfiction that Pages: 300 approx. reads like a spy thriller, Charles Kaiser, an engaging Manuscript available Dec 2013 Rights: World historian and family friend of the Boulloches, narrates Nonfiction the siblings’ brave action during the war and reveals the tragic reason behind their silence that lasted half a century.

8 9 THE UNLIKELY SETTLER LIPIKA PELHAM

FROM THE UNLIKELY SETTLER

During our fifth year in Jerusalem, I was faced with a dilemma: The Middle East conflict seen by an outsider where to give birth to our third child. In London, where my two who craves to make sense of herself, her mar- older children were born and where my husband wanted me to go? riage, and the city she lives in In Bethlehem, because my friends recommended the Holy Family Hospital there? Or in Jerusalem, where I had met a Jewish orthodox obstetrician I really liked? The Unlikely Settler is none other than a young I tried not to rule out Bethlehem. Many of our expatriate friends—journalists Bengali BBC journalist who moves to Jerusalem with and diplomats—went to Palestinian cities to deliver their babies to avoid prob- her English-Jewish husband and two children. He able future difficulties for their work life in the Middle East. I went to see the speaks Arabic and is an arch believer in the Middle hospital in Bethlehem. It had a beautiful setting, amid lovely gardens, and a state- East peace process; she leaves her career behind to of-the-art neonatal unit. The delivery rooms were spacious and airy with a view follow his dream. Jerusalem propels Pelham into a “ LIPIKA PELHAM was born of the primordial hills. But it sounded so clichéd. Born in Bethlehem. Implicated world where freedom from tribal allegiance is a chal- in too much compassion and sacrifice. A birth loaded with expectations. Given lenging prospect. From the school you choose for your and grew up on the border be- that Bethlehem had one of the highest birth rates in Palestine, the land should children to the wine you buy, you take sides at every tween Bangladesh and India, have been inundated by now with hundreds of thousands of compassionate turn, and the question becomes, Which side? and in the past twenty years Apostles. If only forgiveness had been the core value of this place, peace would Pelham’s complicated relationship with her hus- has lived in England, Morocco, have flourished in the hills around Jesus’s birthplace, rather than outposts of band, Leo, is as emotive as the city she lives in, as Jordan, and Israel. In her early hate. I could not help my eye being drawn to the ugly architecture of the Israeli full of energy, pain, and contradictions. As she tries to twenties she joined the BBC settlements that dotted the landscape around Bethlehem. It was too ominous a navigate the complexities and absurdities of daily life World Service and reported place to give birth. in Jerusalem, with vignettes that are often hilarious, from India, Bangladesh, the Pelham provides deep insights into the respective Philippines, Morocco, and Is- woes and guilt of her Palestinian and Israeli friends. rael. In 2005 Lipika moved with Spring 2014 Her intelligent analysis shows a reality on the her family to Jerusalem, where On sale: 3/25/2014 ground that often has practical implications for a po- she became a documentary Manuscript available filmmaker, winning among Pages: 352 tential resolution of the conflict. Rights: World (excluding UK) other prizes the prestigious Nonfiction Centre Méditerranéen de la Propritor: Janklow & Nesbit, Communication Audiovisuelle Rebecca Carter ([email protected]) Prix Spécial du Jury in 2010.

10 11 THE IMPOSSIBLE EXILE GEORGE PROCHNIK

Praise for An original study of exile, told through the GEORGE PROCHNIK’s es- In Pursuit of Silence: biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig says, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous jour- “Elegant and eloquent.” In the 1930s, Stefan Zweig was the most widely nals. He taught English and —New York Times translated author in the world. His novels, short American literature at Hebrew stories, and biographies were so compelling that University in Jerusalem, is the “An adventure of profound they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an author of In Pursuit of Silence: listening.” —New Yorker intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Listening for Meaning in a Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, in a matter of a few World of Noise and Putnam Praise for years, this celebrity writer who had dedicated much Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Putnam Camp: of his energy to promoting international humanism Jackson Putnam, and the plummeted into an increasingly isolated exile—from Purpose of American Psychol- “In Putnam Camp, Prochnik has London to Bath to , then Ossining, Rio, ogy, and is editor-at-large for found a compelling way to connect and finally Petrópolis—where, in 1942, in a cramped Cabinet magazine. He lives in a specific moment of the past to bungalow, he killed himself. New York City. our more general cultural history. The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of His book can serve readers well Zweig’s extraordinary rise and fall while it also de- who want to consider the contem- Stefan Zweig picts, with great acumen, the gulf between the world porary potential of the intersecting of ideas in Europe and in America, and the ways in legacies of Freudian stoicism and which the two cultures are fundamentally at odds. It American social hope.” also reveals how Zweig embodied, through his work, —Bookforum Spring 2014 thoughts, and behavior, the end of an era—the implo- On sale: 5/6/2014 sion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization. Manuscript available “Prochnik provides fascinating Pages: 368 details of the historical and social Rights: World context.” —New Yorker Nonfiction Agent: The Wylie Agency, Jin Auh ([email protected])

12 13 A WELL-TEMPERED HEART JAN-PHILIPP SENDKER Translated from the German by Kevin Wiliarty

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats The sequel to the international best-selling JAN-PHILIPP SENDKER, born rights sold: novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats in Hamburg in 1960, was the Brazil: Companhia das Letras American correspondent for Bulgaria: Hermes Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win Stern from 1990 to 1995, and China: Phoenix-Power came back from Burma, her father’s native country. its Asian correspondent from Croatia: Znanje Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he Czech Republic: Albatros private life is at a crossroads: her boyfriend recently published Cracks in the Wall, Denmark: Gads Forlag left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, a nonfiction book about China. France: Lattes despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Germany: Blessing Julia is lost and exhausted. his first novel, is an interna- Hungary: Tricum Kiado One day, in the middle of an important business tional best seller. He lives in Israel: Ha’kursa meeting, she hears a stranger’s voice in her head that Berlin with his family. Italy: Neri Pozza causes her to leave the office without explanation. In Japan: Villagebooks the following days, her crisis only deepens. Not only Korea: Sam & Parkers does the female voice refuse to disappear, but it starts Latvia: Zuaigzane to ask questions Julia has been trying to avoid. Why Netherlands: Mistral do you live alone? To whom do you feel close? What Rights sold: Norway: Cappelen Damm do you want in life? Bulgaria: Hermes Poland: Amber Interwoven with Julia’s story is that of a Burmese Germany: Blessing Romania: Editura Allfa woman named Nu Nu who finds her world turned Hungary: Tricum Kiado Russia: Azbooka-Atticus upside down when Burma goes to war and calls on Israel: Ha’kursa Serbia: Laguna January 2014 her two young sons to be child soldiers. This spirited Italy: Neri Pozza Slovenia: UCILA Intl. Zalozba On sale: 1/21/2014 sequel, like The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, explores Norway: Cappelen Damm Manuscript available Span: Grijalbo Pages: 320 the most inspiring and passionate terrain: the human Serbia: Laguna Sweden: Forum Fiction heart. Slovenia: UCILA Intl. Zalozba Taiwan: Ten Points Rights: World Taiwan: Ten Points Proprietor: Janklow & Nesbit, Turkey: Koridor Yayınları Turkey: Koridor Yayınları PJ Mark UK: Polygon ([email protected]) UK: Polygon

14 15 SECRECY RUPERT THOMSON

Praise for A sorcerer in wax. A fugitive. Haunted by a Secrecy: past he cannot escape. Threatened by a future he cannot imagine. “... Chillingly brilliant and sinister… masterly.” —Financial Times Zummo, a Sicilian wax sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. But seventeenth- “Bewitching… Intensely atmo- century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypoc- spheric… Superb” —Daily Mail risy. All forms of pleasure are brutally punished, and the Grand Duke himself, a man for whom marriage “Scene after scene trembles with has been an exquisite torture, hides his pain beneath breath-stopping tension on the a show of excessive piety. RUPERT THOMSON is the au- edge of bliss or dread. No one The Grand Duke asks Zummo to produce a life- thor of eight highly acclaimed else writes quite like this in Britain size woman out of wax, an antidote to the French novels: Dreams of Leaving, today.” —Independent wife who made him suffer so. As Zummo wrestles The Five Gates of Hell, Air & with this unique commission, he falls under the spell Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book “Mesmerising...Exquisitely of a woman whose elusiveness mirrors his own, but of Revelation, Divided King- crafted... A writer of exceptional whose secrets are far more explosive. Lurking in the dom, and Death of A Murderer, skill.” —Observer wings is the poisonous Dominican priest, Stufa, who which was short-listed for the has it within his power to destroy Zummo’s livelihood, Costa Novel of the Year Award if not his life. and by World Book Day for In this highly charged novel, Thomson brings to life the Book to Talk About 2008. Rights sold: Spring 2014 Florence in all its vibrant sensuality, but at the same His memoir, This Party’s Got On sale: 4/22/2014 France: Denoël time he remains entirely contemporary as he explores to Stop, won him the Writers’ Manuscript available Germany: Aufbau Pages: 320 the tension between love and solitude, beauty and Guild Non-Fiction Award. He Holland: Xander Fiction decay. When reality becomes threatening, not to lives in London. Italy: Newton Compton Rights: World except UK say unfathomable, survival strategies are tested to Proprietor: RCW, Peter Straus the limit. Redemption is a possibility, but only if the Turkey: Altın Bilek Yayınları ([email protected]) UK: Granta agonies of death and separation can be transcended.

16 17 WORLD ENGLISH LIVE BAIT FABIO GENOVESI Translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore

Praise for The story of a little Tuscan town where fishing, FABIO GENOVESI is the Live Bait: biking, and rock ’n’ roll make the news, until author of three novels and is tragedy turns everything on its head a regular contributor to Vanity “Genovesi’s books are a gift for ev- Fair and La Lettura, the literary erybody.” —Vanity Fair (Italy) Fiorenzo lives in Muglione, a provincial town of supplement to the leading Ital- Tuscany, with his father, a trainer for the local cycling ian newspaper, Corriere della “If John Irving had an Italian club who is determined to find a champion among his Sera. He also writes for film son, he would be named Fabio team of young athletes. Tiziana has returned to Mug- and theater and has contrib- Genovesi.” —Schnüss, Das Bon- lione after studying abroad and is in charge of the local uted articles to Rolling Stone. ner Stadtmagazin Youth Information Center, which mainly functions as a meeting place for a group of old men who like to “This novel…recalls the movies of play cards and drink wine. Enter Mirko, the incredible Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, or Mario cycling protégée whom Fiorenzo’s father picked up Monicelli…we find in it the same by chance in the remote region of Molise. Mirko is cocktail of political and social sat- a paradox: he is intelligent and naive, a great athlete ire, typical Italian self-derision and but clumsy and helpless in everyday life, an idol of the deep humanity.” —Livres Hebdo local biking fans and a perfect target for the cruelty Fabio Genovesi of his schoolmates. Fiorenzo, Tiziana, and Mirko meet by chance in this desolate and strange place, weav- ing their fates through a story that is at once aching, funny, bitter, and full of poetic fervor. Spring 2014 Told with the tenderness of a Fellini film, this con- Rights sold: On sale: 6/3/2014 temporary and gripping novel is another masterpiece Brazil: Bertrand Manuscript available Oct 2013 Pages: 384 in the great tradition of Italian literature and cinema. France: Fayard Rights: World English This is Genovesi’s first novel to be translated into Germany: Luebbe Fiction English. Israel: Keter Proprietor: Mondadori, Emanuela Netherlands: Signatuur Canali ([email protected]) Spain: Espasa Calpe

20 21 THE HORMONE FACTORY SASKIA GOLDSCHMIDT Translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans FROM THE HORMONE FACTORY

Day by day I seem to be sinking more deeply into the A novel inspired by the true story of a factory SASKIA GOLDSCHMIDT gloom that has characterized so much of my time on where morality was clouded by the intoxica- was born in Amsterdam and earth. I know them well, the days when it feels as tion of science and progress studied at the School of Arts in Utrecht. She currently works if you’re stuck ankle-deep in filthy, glutinous sludge, and every movement demands just too much effort. The hours you lie in In the 1920s, Mordecai and his twin brother, Aron, as a writer, teacher, and actor. bed motionless because you’re locked in a cocoon of wretched- take control of their family’s thriving meat-processing Her first book,Verplicht Geluk- ness. It’s from that position that you survey the world. The sun plant. Mordecai hears rumors about hormones that kig (2011), is a memoir of her that rises as if its light could possibly make any difference. Mizie can be extracted from the organs of slaughtered father. entering the room with her mirthless smile. The bustle of people animals, and decides to build a laboratory and invite in the street rushing about, as if their comings and goings could the famous pharmacologist Rafaël Levine to join them. “ As they begin experimenting with these hor- make the world even one iota better or worse. Yes, for years I had those same delusions myself. Ah, how I believed that I mattered, mones—by giving estrogen to the female employees, that with my abilities, my determination, my intelligence, I would and pumping their researchers full of testosterone— make the world a better place! And I have left my mark, it’s true. the lines between science and commerce, ethics and But whether it’s helped the world—who the devil knows? Out of profit, become increasingly blurred. Set in a provincial the frying pan and into the fire, that’s all it ever is, for every single Catholic town that’s predictably anti-Semitism, The one of us. Hormone Factory tells the devastating tale of these ex- periments, from which no one will remain unscathed.

Fall 2014 On sale: 9/9/2014 Manuscript available Sept 2013 Pages: 286 approx. Rights: World English Fiction Rights sold: Proprietor: Uitgeverij Cossee, The France: Gallimard Netherlands Germany: DTV South Africa: Protea Boekhuis

22 23 T H E GODDESS OF SMALL VICTORIES YANNICK GRANNEC

Praise for A moving portrait of a great genius’s destructive YANNICK GRANNEC lives The Goddess of Small force, and a deeply moving ode to self-sacrifice in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. She Victories: is trained as an industrial This debut novel begins at in designer and now works in “This portrait of a woman at once 1980, when a young librarian named Anna Roth tries graphic design. The Goddess free and trapped, destroyed and to obtain the private papers of recently deceased Kurt of Small Victories is her first invincible, is not the only strength Gödel—one of the most important mathematicians novel. of Yannick Grannec’s book. She and logicians of the twentieth century, a close friend had the intelligence to construct of Albert Einstein, author of the famous “Incomplete- a narrative that approaches scien- ness Theorem,” and the subject of Douglas Hofstadter’s tific genius peripherally, while still magisterial Gödel, Escher, Bach. To gain access to his finding a way of making it deeply papers, Anna must convince the great man’s eighty-year- profound… A beautiful novel about old, dying widow, Adèle, who’s embittered by the loss love and mourning that movingly of her husband and is taking revenge on the scientific follows the trajectory of an excep- community by withholding these invaluable documents. tional man who sacrificed himself The two women meet, at first with mistrust, but to his quest for a truth higher than after several visits Adèle begins to treat Anna as her life.” —Le Monde des livres Adèle and Kurt Gödel confidante and tentatively agrees to surrender the documents. Through their conversations, Adèle’s heart- “Yannick Grannec plays with time breaking narrative unfolds, revealing a loving wife who and place with dexterity that spent her entire adult life trying to keep her brilliant but reveals thorough research and Fall 2014 mentally unstable husband from succumbing to insanity. unusual narrative talent.” On Sale: 9/9/2014 Moving from Vienna in the 1930s to post-war Princeton, Rights sold: Pages: 472 approx. —Elle (France) Manuscript available Oct 2013 from the Anschluss to McCarthyism, The Goddess of France: Anne-Carriere Rights: World English Small Victories is a vivid fictionalized narrative of the Germany: Ecowin Verlag “An astonishing first novel… Yan- Fiction most important scientific and political upheavals of the Italy: Longanesi Agent: Anne Carriere, nick Grannec manages to make the twentieth century. Its ending even suggests a path to Netherlands: De Arbeiderspers Yasmina Urien arid area of ​​formal logic exciting ([email protected]) resolve the quandry that led Godel to kill himself Spain: Alfaguara and epic.” —Le Point 24 25 ALL RUSSIANS LOVE BIRCH TREES OLGA GRJASNOWA Translated from the German by Eva Bacon

Praise for An award-winning debut novel about a quirky All Russians Love Birch immigrant’s journey through a multicultural, Trees: post-nationalist landscape

“Here the world comes to you, as Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees fol- it never has appeared to you in a lows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five novel. With power, with wit, with languages and able to get by in several others, Masha wisdom and clarity, with subtlety lives with her boyfriend, Elias. Her best friends are and grief.” —Elmar Krekeler, Die Muslims struggling to obtain residence permits, and Welt her parents rarely leave the house except to compare gas prices. Masha has nearly completed her studies “Olga Grjasnowa writes from the to become an interpreter, when suddenly Elias is hos- OLGA GRJASNOWA was born nerve center of her generation.” pitalized after a serious soccer injury and dies, forcing in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan, —Ursula März, Die Zeit her to question a past that has haunted her for years. grew up in the Caucasus, and Olga Grjasnowa has a unique gift for seeing the has spent extended periods funny side of even the most tragic situations. With in Poland, Russia, and Israel. cool irony, her debut novel tells the story of a head- She moved to Germany at the strong young woman for whom the issue of origin age of twelve and is a gradu- and nationality is immaterial—her Jewish background ate of the German Institute has taught her she can survive anywhere. Yet Masha for Literature/Creative Writing isn’t equipped to deal with grief, and this all-too-normal in Leipzig. In 2010 she was January 2014 shortcoming gives a particularly bittersweet quality to awarded the Dramatist Prize On sale: 1/7/2014 Rights sold: her adventures. of the Wiener Wortstätten for Manuscript available Croatia: Edicije Bozicevic Pages: 336 her debut play, Mitfühlende Denmark: C&K Forlag Rights: World English Deutsche (Compassionate France: Les Escales Fiction Germans). She is currently Proprietor: Regal Literary, Inc., studying dance science at the Spain: Ediciones Còmplices Markus Hoffman Sweden: Weyler Bokförlag ([email protected]) Berlin Free University.

26 27 UNLEARNING HANNAH ARENDT MARIE LUISE KNOTT Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer

Praise for Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an Unlearning Hannah Arendt: examination of the innovative techniques Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom “Marie Luise Knott’s essays enable the reader to benefit from Arendt, After observing the trial of the infamous Adolf even where you are actually not Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial willing to follow her. It doesn’t concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of show her ways of thinking as a the most chilling and divisive moral questions of the fixation of certainties but as a twentieth century: How can genocidal acts be carried process to dissolve certainties and out by non-psychopathic people? By revealing the full to systematically forget them.” complexity of the trial through unique reasoning that —Wolfgang Matz, Frankfurter defied prevailing attitudes, Arendt became the object Allgemeine Zeitung of harsh criticism from both the intellectual and Jew- ish communities. And while her theories have contin- “A knowledgeable little book.” ued to draw innumerable opponents, Arendt’s work MARIE LUISE KNOTT is a —Alexander Cammann, Die Zeit remains relevant nearly forty years after her death. journalist, translator, and au- Anchoring its discussion in the themes of laughter, thor living in Berlin. In 1995, “An illuminating essay.” translation, forgiveness, and dramatization, Unlearning she founded the German edi- —La Stampa Hannah Arendt explores the ways in which this iconic tion of Le Monde diplomatique political theorist “unlearned” recognized trends and and has been its editor-in-chief patterns—both philosophical and cultural—to estab- for the past eleven years. She May 2014 lish a theoretical praxis all her own. By tracing the so- has written numerous works On sale: 5/13/2014 cial context and intellectual influences—Karl Jaspers, on art and literature, as well as Manuscript available Aug 2013 Pages: 160 Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger—that helped two important studies of Han- Nonfiction shape both Arendt’s thinking and processes, Knott has nah Arendt: Von Den Dichtern Rights: World English formed a historically engaged and incisive contribution Erwarten Wir Wahrheit, and Proprietor: Matthes & Seitz Rights sold: to Arendt’s legacy. In light of the current global political Hannah Arendt Und Gershom Berlin, Richard Stoiber Italy: Cortina Raffaello ([email protected]) climate, there is perhaps no better time to revisit the Scholem, Der Briefwechsel. work of one of the most important and indispensable figures of twentieth-century thought. 28 29 PAPERS IN THE WIND EDUARDO SACHERI Translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem

Praise for Praise for From the best-selling author of The Secret in EDUARDO SACHERI was The Secret in Their Eyes: Papers in the Wind: Their Eyes, an adventure about friendship and born in Buenos Aires in 1967. soccer A professor of history, Sa- “Beguiling… [A] complex and “Sacheri succeeds like few others in giv- cheri teaches high school and engaging narrative.” —Publishers ing his stories a universal dimension— When Alejandro “Mono” dies of cancer, his university students. His first Weekly the stories of ordinary people where the brother and two closest friends, a tight-knit group collection of short stories was commonplace becomes epic.” since childhood, are left to figure out how to take published in Spain in 2000, and “A brutal murder is the starting —Juan José Campanella, Oscar- care of his young daughter, Guadalupe. They want to three later collections have be- point for this strange, compel- winning director of The Secret in give her all the love they felt for Mono and secure her come best sellers in Argentina. ling journey through Argentina’s Their Eyes future, but there isn’t a single peso left in the bank. His novel The Secret in Their criminal‑justice system… A view Mono invested all of his money in a promising soc- Eyes (Other Press) has been of the world as a dark place il- “With his stories of soccer and the de- cer player whose promise hasn’t panned out, and the sold in a number of territories, luminated by personal loyalties.” scriptions of its players and fans, Sacheri three hundred thousand dollars Mono spent on his and its film adaptation won —Kirkus Reviews reconfirms his previous literary merits: transfer is soon to be lost for good. the Academy Award for Best the ability to create environments with How do you sell a forward who can’t score a Foreign Film in 2010. “In straightforward prose, Sacheri great sensitivity and narration, giving his goal? How do you negotiate in a world whose rules builds a startling psychological words just the right tone, and suggest- you don’t know? How do you maintain relationships mystery—about the secrets of ing that something is left unsaid.” when repeated failures create fissures in lifelong loyal- a country corroded by state ter- —Revista Acción ties? Fernando, Mauricio, and “Ruso” pool the few ror, and the secrets of a heart so resources they have in their arsenal to come up with suffocated that it cannot utter its strategies—ranging from harebrained to inspired—in simple, pure desire.” —Michael Spring 2014 their desperate attempt to recoup Mono’s investment Greenberg, author of Beg, Bor- On sale: 5/20/2014 for Guadalupe. Manuscript available Jan 2014 row, Steal and Hurry Down Pages: 416 Papers in the Wind is a tribute to friendship and Sunshine Fiction proof that love and humor can triumph over sadness. Rights sold: Rights: World English This novel is an invitation to reflect on life’s ability to France: Editions Héloïse Proprietor: Agencia Literaria Irene find a way through pain and grief, and move forward d’Ormesson Barki, Irène Barki ([email protected]) even in the face of unbeatable odds. Germany: Berlin Verlag Spanish: Alfaguara

30 31 I’LL BE RIGHT THERE KYUNG-SOOK SHIN Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell

Praise for How friendship, European literature, and a Please Look After Mom: charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd “Intimate and hauntingly spare… A raw tribute to the mysteries of Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of motherhood.” —New York Times political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Book Review Yoon—a highly literate, twenty-something woman— as she recounts her own tragic personal history as “The most moving and accom- well as those of her three intimate college friends. plished, and often startling, novel When after eight years of separation Yoon receives a in translation I’ve read in many distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend, memo- KYUNG-SOOK SHIN, the seasons… Every sentence is ries of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing author of seventeen works saturated in detail… It tells an al- her to relive the most intense period of her young life. of fiction, is one of South most unbearably affecting story of With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she Korea’s most widely read remorse and belated wisdom that revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong and acclaimed novelists. Her reminds us how globalism—at the bond with her now dying former college professor, the best seller Please Look After human level—can tear souls apart excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged Mom has been translated and leave them uncertain of where out of a shared sense of isolation and grief. into more than 30 languages. to turn.” —Pico Iyer, Wall Street Yoon’s harrowing formative experiences, which She has been honored with Journal highlight both the fragility and force of personal con- the Man Asian Literary Prize, nection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become the Manhae Literature Prize, Rights sold: Spring 2014 immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and the Dong-in Literature Prize, China: People’s Literature On sale: 4/15/2014 esoteric utterly familiar: her use of European literature the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and Manuscript available Italy: Sellerio Pages: 320 as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as Korea: Mukhadonge Publishers Fiction any remaining gaps between East and West. Love, well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Norway: Norstedts Förlag Rights: World English friendship, and solitude are ultimately the same every- Arts, awarded for her body of Proprietor: Barbara J Zitwer Agency, Poland: Kwaity Orientu where, and this book makes this particularly poignant. work for general achievement Barbara J Zitwer Spanish: Grijalbo ([email protected]) in Korean culture and the arts. Taiwan: Eurasian 32 33 A DISTANT FATHER ANTONIO SKÁRMETA Translated from the Spanish by John Cullen

Praise for Praise for A daydream of youth, nostalgia, and the ab- ANTONIO SKÁRMETA is a A Distant Father: Il Postino: sence of a father, from one of Latin America’s Chilean writer whose novel finest storytellers and film Ardiente paciencia “Each sensuous line of A Distant “Skármeta’s gift is the ability to place inspired the 1994 Academy Father is in its proper place. Noth- a personal story in the context of a Jacques is the schoolmaster in the little village of Award–winning movie, Il Pos- ing is superfluous, everything fits national upheaval and make it warm, Contulma, Chile. On the side, he translates French po- tino (The Postman). The novel’s together with the precision of a funny, and universal.” etry for the local newspaper. He inherited his passion English translation bears the master craftsman who can work —San Francisco Chronicle for the French language from his father, Pierre, who a same title. His fiction has re- with his eyes closed. There are no year earlier suddenly left Jacques and his mother and ceived dozens of awards and gimmicks, no tricky rhetoric, no py- “A witty and imaginative meditation on fled to his birthplace in France. Meanwhile, they won- has been translated into nearly rotechnics. Distilling the text over the relationship between literature and der about Pierre’s departure and eagerly await news thirty languages. In 2011, his and over, the author has become reality, and a wry, affectionate depiction from him that never arrives. Even the attraction that novel Los días del arcoíris (The like an alchemist in pursuit of the of youthful passion.” Jacques feels for the two older sisters of his favorite Days of the Rainbow) won the philosopher’s stone—a perfect —Washington Post student don’t succeed in making him forget about his prestigious Premio iberoameri- simplicity that can be reached only father. cano Planeta-Casa de América with the exact words.” This sensitive book marvelously recreates the de Narrativa. His play El Plebi- —La Vanguardia claustrophobic atmosphere of a lost village and its scito, based on the same true inhabitants, caught between conventions and gossip. incident as this novel, was the basis for the Oscar-nominated film No. Rights Sold: Brazil: Record September 2014 France: Grasset On sale: 9/16/2014 Manuscript available UK: Other Press Pages: 128 Germany: Graf Fiction Italy: Einaudi Rights: World English Proprietor: Gloria Gutierrez Portugal: Teorema Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells Spain: Planeta ([email protected])

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