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 2 fiction 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 . 4 non-fiction 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 .