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Consumer prices are suggestions only and do not reflect the prices at which books and other products will be sold. 4 harpercollins enjamín Chaparro is a retired law clerk still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young mar- riedB woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investiga- A retired law clerk revisits the most wrenching tion, recalling along the way the major players: Pablo Sando- murder investigation of his career val, Chaparro’s erratic yet brilliant partner; Ricardo Morales, the deceased woman’s husband, who never recovered from the eduardo sacheri tragedy; and Isidoro Gómez, the sickeningly obsessive suspect with whom Chaparro feels an uneasy kinship. As he reaches translated from the spanish into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, by john cullen unrequited love for Irene, then just an intern, now a respected judge. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s, Sacheri’s tale reveals The Secret in Their Eyes the underpinnings of Argentina’s Dirty War and takes on the A Novel question of justice—what it really means and in whose hands it belongs. This haunting crime thriller also explores the bound- FICTION • $19.99 ORIGINAL TPB W/ FLAPS aries of love in all its forms: adoration, devotion and obsession. ISBN: 978-1-44340-682-6 • SHIPPING IN OCTOBER FIC019000 • 320 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • carton qty: 32 praise for the film the secret in their eyes rights acquired: Canada/English language other rights: Other Press “An attractive, messy drama riddled with violence and sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Julia Barrett edged with comedy that comes with a hint of Grand Gui- gnol, a suggestion of politics and three resonant, deeply appealing performances.” THE NEW YORK TIMES Academy Award Winner “This spellbinder will sneak up and floor you. It’s that good. for Best Foreign A supremely intelligent and deeply touching thriller. Thun- Language Film derously exciting!” 2010 ROLLING STONE EDUARDO SACHERI was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. His first collection of short stories, Esperándolo a Tito y otros cuen- tos de fútbol (Waiting for Tito and Other Football Stories), was published in Spain in 2000 under the title Los traidores y otros cuentos (The Traitors and Other Stories). Three of his other col- lections were published between 2001 and 2007, all of which have been bestsellers in Argentina. His novel La pregunta de sus ojos has been sold into eight territories, and the film adap- tation, The Secret in Their Eyes, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. JOHN CULLEN is the translator of many books from Span- ish, French, German and Italian, including Margaret Mazzantini’s Don’t Move, Yasmina Khadra’s Middle East Trilogy (The Swal- lows of Kabul, The Attack, The Sirens of Baghdad), Christa Wolf’s Medea and Manuel de Lope’s The Wrong Blood. He lives in upstate New York. H A R P E R A UDI O C ANA DA H A R P E R CO LLINS H A R P E R PERENNIAL H A R P E R TROPH Y C ANA DA C OLLINS H A R P E R WEEKEND HARPER PERENNIAL MODERNCLAS SIC S fall 2011 5 hen Charles Sainte-Beuve, an ambitious French jour- nalist, meets Victor Hugo, a young writer on the verge ofW fame, he finds himself in a world of great passions, a world in which words can become swords. But, to Charles’ surprise, he is more attracted to Victor’s long-suffering wife, Adèle. When A PHyLLIS BRuCE BOOk the two lovers create a scandale in Paris, Victor exacts his price for betrayal. “Witty, sad and gorgeous in equal measure.” Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III, and —Emma Donoghue sweeping from France to the Channel Islands, to Halifax and back, The Reinvention of Love draws a rich portrait of the old helen humphreys city, where duels are fought in its parks and cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine. Along its narrow, crime-filled streets, noble families and artists—Chopin, George Sand, Alexandre The Reinvention of Love Dumas—mix with ordinary citizens, still restless with ideas A Novel of revolution. And towering over all is the enormous talent of Victor Hugo, who is quickly becoming the voice of France FICTION • $29.99 CL to the world. ISBN: 978-1-55468-443-4 • SHIPPING IN AuGuST FIC000000 • 320 pp • 5 x 8 • carton qty: 12 The Reinvention of Love turns historical fact into an atmo- rights acquired: Canada/English language spheric, delicately wrought story of inescapable family ties and other rights: Aitken Alexander Associates forbidden love. editor: Phyllis Bruce • publicist: Emma Ingram “She captures, most alluringly, the joyful and solitary nature of the human heart.” THE GLOBE AND MAIL ON COVENTRY “Delicate and incandescent.” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE ON AF TERIMAGE HELEN HUMPHREYS is an award-winning author of five ac- claimed novels. Her last novel, Coventry, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. The Lost Garden was a Canada Reads selection. Afterimage won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Leaving Earth received the Toronto Book Award; and The Frozen Thames was a #1 bestseller. In 2009, Humphreys was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence. Visit her online at www.hhumphreys.com. also available by helen humphreys Afterimage 978-1-55468-473-1 $17.99 tpb Coventry 978-1-55468-477-9 $17.99 tpb Leaving Earth 978-0-00-639184-5 $18.95 tpb The Lost Garden 978-1-55468-474-8 $17.99 tpb Wild Dogs 978-0-00-639180-7 $16.95 tpb H A R P E R A UDI O C ANA DA H A R P E R CO LLINS H A R P E R PERENNIAL H A R P E R TROPH Y C ANA DA C OLLINS H A R P E R WEEKEND HARPER PERENNIAL MODERNCLAS SIC S 6 harpercollins or decades Elisabeth Badinter has been at the forefront of the fight for women’s equality. Now, in an explosive newF book, she points her finger at an unlikely and unexpected danger that’s undermining the status of women: liberal moth- A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a erhood in conflict with all that is “natural.” Attachment par- scathing indictment of liberal motherhood enting, co-sleeping, natural childbirth, homemade baby food, baby-wearing, stay-at-home mothers and especially breast- feeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have elisabeth badinter succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers and The Conflict anything that distracts a mother’s attention from her offspring How Modern Motherhood Undermines the have turned child-rearing into a singularly regressive force. Status of Women In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated women’S studieS • $27.99 CL ISBN: 978-1-44340-720-5 • SHIPPING IN septembeR until now, a shift that North America has pioneered. She re- SOC028000/SOC010000 • 256 pp • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • carton qty: 32 serves special ire for the fanaticism of the La Leche League—an rights acquired: Canada/English language offshoot of conservative evangelicalism—showing how on- other rights: Farrar, Straus and Giroux demand breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women’s sponsoring editor: Iris Tupholme • publicist: Meghan Paton choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability, empathy and wisdom has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers—one cause of the West’s alarming declining birth rate.