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Page 1: International Rights Catalogue · David Albahari DANAS JE SREDA (TODAY IS WEDNESDAY) Original publisher: Čarobna, 2017 Rights sold: German Schöffling, “Literature can hardly be

International Rights Catalogue

London Book Fair / Spring 2018

Page 2: International Rights Catalogue · David Albahari DANAS JE SREDA (TODAY IS WEDNESDAY) Original publisher: Čarobna, 2017 Rights sold: German Schöffling, “Literature can hardly be

David Albahari

DANAS JE SREDA (TODAY IS WEDNESDAY)

Original publisher: Čarobna, 2017 Rights sold: German Schöffling,

“Literature can hardly be more contemporary and layered, mystical and

ironic.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“Albahari makes us feel how fiercely the present is an expression of the past” BOMB

“Albahari is to be ‘stored’ on the shelf of

Nobel Prize winners in spe.” La Vie Littéraire

…………………………………………….

A son takes care of his

sick father. As they

talk for hours during

their daily walks

along the river

Danube the son

gradually begins to

understand that his

father — before being denounced and

sent to the notorious labour camp on the

Adriatic island Goli Otok where he was

tortured — was in fact a cruel and feared

party activist working for OZNA, the

former Yugoslavian secret service which

did not hesitate to bring terror against its

own population. Now, as the once brutal

tormentor has become a helpless,

miserable victim of Parkinson’s disease

the son is torn between feelings of pity

and remorse. First the illness created a

unique sense of closeness between father

and son, now it seems to be a kind of

punishment for his father’s wrongdoings.

As the illness progresses and eventually

leads to dementia — maybe another way

of escaping responsibility? — the son

himself suddenly starts to see and feel

unreal and imaginary things and one

begins to suspect that he too is probably

no longer in control of his mental

capacity.

As always in Albahari’s novels, the

question arises whether the narrator can

be trusted. Is it possible to believe

someone who is the only witness in his

story? TODAY IS WEDNESDAY is maybe

Albahari’s most “realistic” and also most

political novel dealing with the brutal

practices of the communist regime after

WWII. At the same time it is also a very

personal book as the author describes

(his) Parkinson’s disease in all its

humiliating and ruthless details.

……………………………………………

The Serbian writer DAVID ALBAHARI,

born in 1948, has published nine

collections

of short

stories and

a dozen of

novels. His

collection of

stories Description of Death won the Ivo

Andrić Award 1982. His novel Bait won

the NIN Award 1996, as well as the

Balcanica Award and Berlin Bridge

Prize. In 1994 he moved to Canada but

has now returned to his hometown

Zemun near Belgrade. His books are

translated into more than 16 languages.

…………………………………………….

BACKLIST (Selection) • Animal Kingdom, 2014

• Checkpoint, 2010

• Leeches, 2005

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Nir Baram

TSEL OLAM

(WORLD SHADOW)

English translation by Jessica Cohen available

Original publisher: Am Oved, 2013 Rights sold: World English Text Pub-lishing, German Hanser, Spanish Alfaguara, Dutch De Bezige Bij, Nor-wegian Gyldendal, Danish Gyldendal, Croatian Fraktura

“A long, ambitious, smart, political, per-sonal, global, emotional, intellectual,

unlike-anything-else novel by the huge-ly talented Nir Bram.” Jessica Cohen

"A real literary achievement on every

level,… a mind-blowing epos" Ha'aretz

“An addictive masterpiece” WDR Radio

“This powerful and profound depiction of ideological clashes makes Baram a

true heir to Amos Oz.” Der Freitag

"A sharp and brilliantly written analysis of global politics, suspenseful like a political

thriller. Mark the name of this author." NDR

"One of the most ambitious novels I have ever read. A lucid

and torrential story of revolution, poli-tics and defeat." El País

…………………………………………….

Gabriel Mantzur

joins a group of

businessmen with

whom he endeav-

ours to seize the

golden opportunities

presented by global-

ization in the 90’s.

He gradually be-

comes part of Israel's upper echelons of

power, but the higher he goes the less he

understands the intrigues in which he is

involved.

A group of young Londoners, dejected out-

casts and disillusioned idealists, decides to

prompt a global strike of 1 billion people.

An American corporation specialized in

global political consulting, manoeuvres

between campaigns in Bolivia, Congo

threaten to expose the doings behind the

scenes of this seemingly liberal organiza-

tion.

These are the three forces at the heart of

Baram’s new novel — each portrayed in

a distinctive voice — masterfully inter-

twined to a point of inescapable colli-

sion, revealing the global system we are

all subjected to.

A novel about capitalism and the indi-

vidual freedom to choose ones path in a

world looming with possibilities of get-

ting lost along the way.

…………………………………………….

NIR BARAM, “shooting star of the Israeli

literature” (Die Welt), has been compared

to the likes of Dosto-

yevsky, Vassily

Grossman, Varlam

Shalamov or Don

DeLillo. His novel

Good People set “a

new standard for Is-

raeli literature" (A. B.

Yehoshua) and be-

came an international sensation, published

by Hanser, de Bezige Bij, Alfaguara, Ponte

all Grazie, Laffont and others. It was

shortlisted for the Israeli Booker Prize and

the Roma Prize for foreign literature.

Baram also received the Prime Minister’s

Award in Israel.

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Nir Baram

A LAND WITHOUT BORDERS My journey around East Jerusalem

and the West Bank

Original publisher: Am Oved 2016 Rights sold: German Hanser, World English Text Publishing, Dutch De Bezige Bij

An important book for 2018 which marks

70 years since the establishment of Israel and the beginning of the real problem at the core of the conflict: the displacement of more than 700’000 Palestinians. "From horror to fatigue to indifference,

an important look forward and back that provides a grass-roots sense... An honest and troubling snapshot of Israel–both Palestinian and Israeli–that reveals the

creeping realization that a two-state solution may no longer be possible."

Kirkus (starred review)

“A wide-ranging travelogue…The great virtue of his book is that Baram lets his interlocutors speak for themselves. And what he hears is total and irreconcilable

difference.” New York Times

“Nir Baram not only writes brilliantly reportages. He also convincingly shows that the concepts of a strict separation of

Israelis and Palestinians have been surpassed by the reality on the ground. An important message also for Europe’s

diplomats.“ Deutschlandfunk

“Baram brings an open heart and mind to exploring the difficulties of

coexistence where physical and emotional walls do harm on both

sides.” Booklist ………………………………………….

When travelling

around the world and

giving interviews, the

acclaimed Israeli writer

Nir Baram was

invariably asked the

same question: What is

the future of the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict?

Phrases like ‘one-‘ and ‘two-state solution’

have been thrown around for more than

half a century and have since become fully

divorced from today’s reality.

Tired of the stereotyped and abstract way

the conflict is discussed in the media,

Baram decided to find an answer that will

cut through to the truth. He set off on a

one-man-journey along the Green Line

separating Israelis and Palestinians just

before the 2014 Gaza war and finishes it

after the 2015 elections.

Baram, a vocal political commentator and

a well-known campainger for the peace

camp in Israel has decided to hold back

his opinions and simply record what he

encounters. The results are shocking —

both to the readers and to the reporter

himself. People, whom Baram meets on

his trail, transcend simplistic divisions into

Us and Them — like a group of Hamas

members, who served sentences in Israeli

prisons and now set up a Hebrew

language school.

At the same time, the political landscape

changes every day of the journey, with

society being shaken by the abduction of

three Jewish boys, riots at Temple Mount,

war in Gaza and the 2015 shocking

election. Baram records it all with a

writer’s sensibility and journalistic

immediacy.

A LAND WITHOUT BORDERS is a

masterclass in striking the difficult balance

between the political and personal,

between remaining open to unexpected

experiences and retaining one’s integrity.

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Otto de Kat

FREETOWN

Original publisher: Van Oorschot, 2018 Rights sold: German Schöffling

“De Kat’s language is of rare beauty and he writes with endless melancholy.“

NDC papers, Haarlems Dagblad

“One of the Netherlands' most compelling literary voices”

Irish Examiner …………………………………………….

“He was a Fula. He was, because I don’t

see him anymore. I don’t know if he’s

still alive, or where he might be. He just

vanished.”

Maria is independent, unconventional

and unafraid. She is trying to find an

explanation for the disappearance of

Ishmael, a refugee from Sierra Leone

who came to her door as a newspaper

boy and stayed for seven years. He was

like a son to her.

Vincent is a psychologist. Once he and

Maria had an all-encompassing

relationship, but since their break-up he

has been living in a kind of haze. When

Maria asks him for help, he says she can

come round.

In the encounters that follow, Ishmael is

pushed into the background by the old

love between Vincent and Maria. Old

stories and memories replace the sadness

about the loss of this lost boy. But in spite

of all the confusing and loving

conversations, Ishmael proves

impossible to forget.

…………………………………………….

Born in 1946, OTTO DE KAT studied

Theology and

Dutch Literature

After his studies he

worked as a literary

critic and as a radio

producer. He then

took on in the

publishing world,

starting his own imprint in a large

publishing house. In 1986 he founded

Balans Publishing House, based in

Amsterdam, publishing only non-fiction.

His first novel The Figure in the Distance

came out in 1989 and since then four

novels followed, all set in the 1930s and

1940, favourably received and

nominated for varous literary prizes. He

has received particular praise for his

observant, hushed style.

His work is translated into English,

German, Italian and Swedish and

published by distinguished houses such

as Harvill, MacLehose Press, Suhrkamp,

Schöffling, Le Serpent à Plumes,

L’Ancora del Mediterraneo, Lind &Co.

……………………………………………

BACKLIST

• The Longest Night, 2015 • News from Berlin, 2012

• Julia, 2008

• Man on the Move, 2004

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Dror A. Mishani

3

Original publisher: Achuzat Bayit, 2018

Rights sold: French Gallimard

Detailed synopsis and English sample translations available. ……………………………………………

Three women. Two murders. One man.

Written by one of the leading new

voices of crime fiction in the world, 3 is

an original and inventive mystery, as

well as a tribute and a reminiscence of

the great masters of suspense, Patricia

Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock. At the

same time a unique thriller about three

unforgettable women who never met

but whose fates will intertwine; a

brilliantly constructed detective novel,

whose detective is not revealed until the

last pages; and an uncanny meditation

on the transience of time and the

mysterious relations we have with those

who passed away.

3 is the best and most chilling new

standalone novel by the Israeli master of

crime, Dror A. Mishani.

……………………………………………

DROR A. MISHANI is

a best-selling crime

writer, screenwriter

and literary scholar,

specializing in the

history of crime

fiction. His first three

international best-

sellers in the Inspector Avraham series

were translated into more than 20

languages published by HarperCollins,

Quercus, Seuil, Zsolnay and many

others. They were shortlisted for the

CWA international dagger award and

the Grand Prix de Litterature Policliere

and won the prestigious Martin Beck

award for best crime novel translated to

Swedish and the Grand Prix du meilleur

Polar de lecteurs de Points. Film

adaptations of the Avraham Series for TV

and cinema will be released in 2018.

……………………………………………

Praise for the Inspector Avraham series

"Impressive! Dror Mishani writes with profound originality" Henning Mankell

"Dror Mishani has reached world league

of crime fiction" Die Zeit

“The freshness of Mishani’s novels comes from its striking locale and from the way

the story is told through alternating points of view” Wall Street Journal

“With a refreshingly self-doubting

protagonist (…) both tense and touching" The Guardian

“A subversive take on the standard

police procedural with ruminations on the crime novel” The Irish Times

“Israel is back on the map of crime

fiction!” Die Welt

“Like Swedish author Arne Dahl, Mishani offers us elegant, efficient and

realistic crime fiction” Die Zeit

“Dror Mishani marvellously handles the art of suspense” Les Echos

“A brilliant investigation, full of false

leads” Le Monde

"Dror Mishani is one of the greatest new writers in the genre" Politiken

“A psychological drama that goes far

beyond the standard thriller plot” Wprost

“Close to perfection” De Morgen

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Péter Nádas

VILÁGLÓ RÉSZLETEK (ILLUMINATED DETAILS)

c/o Graf & Graf

Original publisher: Jelenkor, 2017 Rights sold: German Rowohlt, World English: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Swedish Bonniers, French Phébus

The memoirs of a giant of European

literature — from the author of A Book of

Memories — “The greatest novel written in

our time, and one of the great books of the

century” (Susan Sontag) and of Parallel

Stories — a masterpiece internationally

celebrated as “War and Peace” of the 21st

century — comes a spectacular new work

unfolding the life and world of Péter

Nádas.

“A profound history of self-exploration, a psychological family novel, and one of the

groundbreaking books of the twentieth century. His selective as well as

comprehensive view creates images - 'still photos' of memory - which form a giant

painting of his life, marked by the wounds of the 20th century. An opus magnum not only of memoir literature but of literature

as a whole.” Der Standard

“Anyone who climbs into the flood of this text is carried away by a narrative that unites immeasurable knowledge with insatiable wanting to know. A

milestone of literature. Hardly anyone can capture moods better than Nádas.”

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“A firework of remembrance in which each spark unfolds its own luminosity and above all triggers further memories. This

masterpiece makes it clear how the son of a prolific-literary Jewish family became a skilled observer trained in times of great crisis and later one of the greatest writers

of our time.” Frankfurter Allgemeine

“Péter Nádas is the great surveyor of

European landscapes of souls in the 20th century. Just breathtakingly microscopic, a feast of details and nuances, in the next

moment epochal and essayistic, an unsurpassable work of art.”

Die Zeit

“Hundreds of fates are portrayed by Nádas to describe what happened in Hungary and with Hungarians. But in

between he pauses again and again and wonders how everything could also

have turned out quite differently. This is not the question of a chronicler, but that

of a narrator. A monumental book of memory.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Péter Nádas has written not just an autobiography, but great literature

based on associative memories with the tools of an outstanding writer and the precision of a human being capable of

feeling even the smallest detail. The memoirs of a Hungarian author who, in addition to his personal injuries, carries on his shoulders the burden of murder and betrayal in the twentieth century

and, for us, the readers, has sublimated all this into world literature.”

NDR

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Daniel de Roulet

QUELQUES FEMMES

INSOUCIATNES. DIX

PETITES ANARCHISTES (TEN CAREFREE LITTLE ANARCHISTS)

Original publisher: Limmat Verlag, 2017 Rights sold: French Buchet Chastel, Italian Clichy Edizioni

“Daniel de Roulet is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding Swiss writers.”

Revue des Belles Lettres

"A rarely discussed, but highly interesting topic and an author who has personally penetrated the many social-

philosophical topics make this book something very special." Westzeit

"A remarkable novel"

gute-literatur-meine-empfehlungen.de …………………………………………….

In 1872 Bakunin is spending time in the watch manufacturing town of Saint-Imier in the Swiss Jura, where the

Anti-Authoritarian

International is founded. Ten local women are infected by the ideas of freedom and decide to emigrate to South America in order to start a self-determined life there. As a war chest, each procures a Longines 20A.

But they are off to a rough start: soon they hear of the violent death of the two women who went ahead, Colette and her lover Juliette. Nevertheless, the other eight set off on their journey. They travel on a ship which also carries imprisoned exiles of the Paris Commune and on which Émilie dies while giving birth. The

remaining seven arrive in Punta Arenas in Patagonia, where they build a bakery together as well as a watchmaker's workshop. They defy the machismo of colonial officials and pursue their love life in freedom, each to their liking.

Based on historical documents and with the help of his imagination, Daniel de Roulet tells the story of ten women who sought freedom in a time, which had no intention of offering them anything.

First published in German translation by Limmat Verlag, 2017; original French edition to be published in the fall of 2018 by Buchet-Chastel in Paris. .............................................................. DANIEL DE ROULET, born in Geneva in 1944, was an architect and worked as an IT specialist. Since 1997 he devotes all his time to writing. He is the author of numerous novels forming La simulation humaine, a Swiss-Japanese « nuclear family saga » between Hiroshima and Fukushima. He also writes essays and other non-fiction and was awarded several literary prizes : the Prix culture et société de la Ville de Genève, the Prix Marcel Aymé and the Grand Prix de littérature du Canton de Berne. He lives in Geneva.

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Thomas Sparr

GRUNEWALD IM ORIENT Das deutsch-jüdische Jerusalem (GRUNEWALD IN THE ORIENT. The German-Jewish Jerusalem)

Original publisher: Berenberg Verlag, 2018 Rights sold: Hebrew Schocken

"A melancholic, often touching, sometimes painful book. Inevitably so, Thomas Sparr tells of a vanished world.

Only in the books of its former inhabitants, in their poems and letters,

the "spiritual life form" of Rechavia continues to live on.” MDR Kultur

“Sparr in known as a great connoisseur

of German-Jewish intellectual life.” Die Welt

“Thomas Sparr is sensitive and careful in all his miniatures. He writes without

pathos. The picture he paints of Rechavia and his portraits of Scholem,

Kraft and others deeply engrave themselves in the readers mind.”

Badische Zeitung …………………………………………….

The history of the

German Jews has

many places, yet

after 1945 it has one

center: Rechavia,

the district of

Jerusalem that the

architect Richard

Kauffmann from Frankfurt am Main

began to build in the early 1920s as a

garden city in western Jerusalem. This is

where Jews from Germany settled

especially after 1933, and where they

gradually turned into Israelis.

In fact, in Rechavia, its inhabitants

created an incomparable microcosm of

German-Jewish culture, which absorbed

the traditions of the Weimar Republic

and transformed them. This is where Else

Lasker-Schüler, Mascha Kaléko,

Gershom Scholem, Shmuel Hugo

Bergman, Martin Buber, and Werner

Kraft lived, among other famous and

more unknown Israelis.

German was frowned upon in the street;

in many houses of Rechavia it was

spoken. A completely unique, colorful

colony grew upon the grounds of a

difficult everyday life. The idyllic quarter

was located in the crossroads of East and

West Jerusalem of the long-divided city,

political tensions ran through it, and the

presence and past of the Shoah weighed

upon its inhabitants. At the same time, it

was the home of German-Israeli

rapprochement, diplomacy here being

rather substantial than formal. The book

depicts a vivid picture of the inhabitants

of Rechavia, their houses, their origins,

their lives in episodes, anecdotes,

through buildings, city maps and

photographs.

..............................................................

THOMAS SPARR

studied literature and

philosophy in

Hamburg, Marburg

and Paris from 1986 to

1989 at the Hebrew

University in

Jerusalem and at the

Leo Baeck Institute there. From 1990 to

1998 he directed the Jüdischer Verlag,

was from 1999 to 2004 editor in chief of

the Siedler Verlag. He now lives in Berlin

and works as editor-at-large for the

Suhrkamp Verlag.

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Peter Stamm

DIE SANFTE GLEICH-

GÜLTIGKEIT DER WELT (THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD)

Original publisher: S. Fischer, 2018 Rights sold: World English Other Press/UK Granta, French Bourgois, Spanish Acantilado Swedish Thoren & Lindskog

"In his new novel, Peter Stamm constructs a sophisticated experiment: life becomes literature and vice versa.”

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“Peter Stamm plays here in a fascinating way, with times and identities […]. Past and present are intertwined, reality and possibility, the existence of yesteryear

and now.” NZZ am Sonntag

“One of Europe’s most exciting writers” The New York Times Book Review

……………………………………………. Lena is a young

actress in Stockholm.

Christoph writes her a

message. He wants to

meet her. He just

indicates where and

when and that he

wants to tell her a

story. She must have

wondered about such a note.

They meet, go for a walk and he tells her

that he wrote a book, just the one. Lena

says her boyfriend is also a writer, writing

his first novel. He knows, he says: "This

is why I want to tell you my story."

This story changed Christoph's life and

will question everything that Lena has

taken for granted until now. Twenty

years ago Christoph loved a woman who

resembled Lena, who is indeed just the

same. He knows about the life she leads,

knows what still lies ahead of her. And

so begins a uniquely existential game of

past and present that will leave no one

unharmed.

Can we escape our destiny or must we

come to terms with the gentle

indifference of the world?

In the terse and precise language that is

his hallmark Peter Stamm, great pundit

on the human condition, tells us a

different story of the inexplicable

intimacy that separates you from the

person you once were.

"You meet the person you have once

been. He takes different decisions,

makes other errors - and yet he does not

escape your fate." -- Peter Stamm

..............................................................

PETER STAMM,

born in 1963,

shortlisted for the

Man Booker

International Prize

2013, had his

international

breakthrough with

his debut novel Agnes in 1998. Since

then his books have been translated into

more than 30 languages. Stamm’s

writing has been compared to Chekhov

and Camus as well as American

storytellers such as Raymond Carver,

Richard Ford and Ernest Hemingway.

Peter Stamm lives near Zurich with his

wife and two children.

…………………………………………….

BACKLIST (Selection) • To The Back Of Beyond, 2016

• All Days Are Night, 2013

• Seven Years, 2009

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FURTHER TITLES

David Albahari ANIMAL KINGDOM

Original Publisher: Carobna, 2014 Rights sold: German Schöffling, Macedonian Blesok

“In a series of great book Animal Kingdom will leave a lasting trace.“ e-novine

"Albahari's crystalline prose, sparkles with ambiguity."

Süddeutsche Zeitung

"Albahari proves once again what a great novelist he is." Die Welt

“Albahari’s novels are both literary games of deception and cries of despair.

This clash is of a piercing intensity.“ Neue Zürcher Zeitung

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Péter Esterházy PANCREAS DIARY

Original Publisher: Magvetö, 2016 Rights sold: German Hanser Berlin, Sweden Weyler Bokförlag, Romanian Curtea Veche, Slovak Absynt, Serbian Akademska KnjigA

Péter Esterházy’s very last book, his legacy as it were: PANCREAS DIARY is a “logbook” about his disease from the moment he gets the diagnosis.

“Esterházy leaves behind a confusingly happy-making last work.” Die Welt

“Esterházy was a giant of the European literature, whoever reads his books

grows wings.” Terezia Mora, Spiegel online

“Esterházy, the ingenious troublemaker” Le Figaro

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Ursula Fricker LIES PAST AND PRESENT

Original Publisher: dtv, 2016

Rights sold: Macedonian Goten, Arabic Here and There

“Fricker makes precise and contemporary observations which become

universal through her narrative style.” Der Freitag

“The characters are convincing, and the clear language is full of surprising, apt images and a pinch of acidity. A novel about inwardly torn people in

splintered Germany of the present.” Wiener Zeitung

“A sharp sighted plea for differentiation, for overtones, for braving contradictions and breaking preconceptions” Berner Zeitung

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FURTHER TITLES

Dror Mishani THE MAN WHO WANTED TO KNOW

Original Publisher: Achuzat Bayit, 2015 Rights sold: US Harper Collins, UK Quercus, German Zsolnay, French Le Seuil, Polish Foksal

“Dror is a master of Israeli crime” Die Zeit

“A refreshingly self-doubting protagonist, both tense and touching" The Guardian

“Once again, Mishani offers a case in which the pleasure lies not in the

destination but in the journey.” Kirkus

“Fans of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James will be pleased by the nuanced view of human nature.” PW, starred review

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Peter Stamm TO THE BACK OF BEYOND

Original Publisher: S. Fischer, 2016f

Rights sold: World English Other Press/UK Granta, French Bourgois, Spanish Acantilado, Swedish Thoren & Lindskog, Norwegian Solum, Dutch Arbeiderspers, Korean Munhakdongne, Arabic Ibn Rosh, Turkish Paloma

“Stamm sets up the psychological territory with such quiet precision that the reader succumbs at once: To our surprise, we are reading a love story”

The Guardian

“Superb descriptions of alpine nature and internal human conflict … This is a moving work about freedom and wanting.” Publisher’s Weekly

“Stamm’s prose has a hypnotic quality. …this high-wire act between sentimentality and nihilism is an ingenious and beautiful creation.”

Financial Times

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Abraham B. Yehoshua THE EXTRA

Original Publisher: Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2014

Rights sold: US Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, UK Halban, French Grasset, Italian Einaudi, Dutch Wereldbibliotheek, Spanish Duomo, Greek Kastaniotis

“Yehoshua's masterful portrayal of a female musician at a pivotal moment

in her life is deep, unpredictable, and, in the end, surprisingly suspenseful." Kirkus, starred review

“Yehoshua is so graceful and eloquent that his work's timeliness.” The New York Times Book Review

“Award-winning Israeli novelist Yehoshua gives moral force, even

grandeur, to the inevitable push-pull of one family’s life." Library Journal, starred review

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