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Winner of the 2018 Fénéon Literary Prize A captivating and profound exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation. Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded child hidden beneath their gilded social status. Their relationship becomes a dangerous, explosive mix of love and friendship. Immediately after...

The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as Harry Potter."-Elle Magazine In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Far...

A thoroughly immersive read and a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire in gripping prose. It deftly combines historical fiction and a tale of adventure and intrigue. At the center of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 12th and 13th centuries in the Rhineland town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortune...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER. Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. "There's no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year."-ELLE Magazine Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Gio...

An abandoned woman searching for love, a deeply religious immigrant caretaker, a disillusioned researcher trapped in her marriage. Three women whose lives seem as far apart as possible, united by a common secret.When Orna meets Gil on an online dating site, their lackluster affair seems like nothing more than a way to stave off the pain of her recent divorce. But soon it becomes clear that Gil may not be exactly who he claims to be. And Orna's...

TARGET CONSUMER . YA 14 and up . YA-Adult crossover . Readers of Fantasy, e.g. Phillip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, V.E. Schwab, N.K. Jemisin . Female readers (strong female protagonist) KEY SELLING POINTS . Second book in a four-book series . 32, 000 first printrun for English edition of Book 1 . Over a quarter of a million copies sold for Book 1 (French edition). Book 3 of the series debuted at #1 on the French bestseller list (children's fiction...

Amazon Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2018 One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best YA Books of 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of the Year A National Indie Bestseller Longlisted for Irish YA prize Great Reads Award Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit, Christelle Dabos' The Mirror Visitor quartet. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about ap...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 A BEST BOOK OF 2017 Financial Times The Guardian The Daily Telegraph The Observer "Meena Kandasamy's vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You."-The Guardian Set in modern India, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Based on the author's...

A rural epic about warring families in modern Italy and an intimate bildungsroman of the artist's journey. Set over ten years in an unnamed town in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming country. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome's upper middle-class. When Sauro, an ambitious rancher, and Filippo, a hedonistic po...

A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE PICK A POIGNANT RUNAWAY BESTSELLER full of French charm and memorable characters, Fresh Water for Flowers is Valérie Perrin's English debut. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues-gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest-visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix wit...

TARGET CONSUMER Literary Fiction Historical Fiction Theater Gothic, Horror, Supernatural KEY SELLING POINTS Winner "Novel of the Year" An Irish Post Book Awards, Shortlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize, the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, and the 2019 Costa Book Awards Reviews confirmed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others Hardcover publication For theater enthusiasts who are currently unable to a...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020 Translated Lit ·Big Other Expertly told by one of Latin America's most exciting voices, Shooting Down Heaven follows the children raised by 1990s Colombia's most dangerous drug cartels and the consequences that shape their adulthood. After twelve years away, Larry comes home to his native country of Colombia after his father, an old associate of Pablo Escobar, is murdered. Larry returns to collect his remains ...

TARGET CONSUMER:. Literary Fiction. Female protagonists, motherhood, the female body. Contemporary Japanese Fiction >. For fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Jia Tolentino, Lucia Berlin, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, and Sex Object by Jessica Valenti. First of a three-book deal at auction (Frankfurt Book Fair 2018), with Heaven (Europa, 2021) and The Night Belongs to Lovers (Europa, 2021). Author is winner of the Akutagawa Pr...

TARGET CONSUMER. Literary Fiction. Fantasy. Historical KEY SELLING POINTS. From author and translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, 54 weeks on the NYT bestseller list. A literary-fantasy crossover title for fans of Christelle Dabos, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lev Grossman, Margaret Atwood. For readers of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Deathless by Catheryne M. Valente. Set during a war whose central conflicts echo the current moment: border disputes,...

TARGET CONSUMER. For readers of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson, Calypso by David Sedaris, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k by Mark Manson, Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir by Mark Vonnegut.. Readers who are dealing with illness themselves or through friends or family, but also a wider audience who will appreciate the novel's m...

TARGET CONSUMER. Literary Fiction. International Fiction. Magical realism. Latin America. Family relations KEY SELLING POINTS. Books about siblings. Books set in Latin America. Magical realism. For readers of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The Farm by Héctor Abad, A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea, Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Exploration of society's rela...

This Europa classic blends book love and bookstore love with a brilliantly conceived and entertaining mystery and is a delight for readers of all tastes.

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie whose idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of her family. She is a composer in a neo-folk style who claims to be writing a score for a trendy Italian film director.

TARGET CONSUMER· Contemporary Literary Fiction· Family drama, multiethnic, urban novels· African-American interest· For readers of Zadie Smith, Lauren Groff, Paul Beatty, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Angela FlournoyKEY SELLING POINTS- Shortlisted for Toronto Book Prize, Amazon Canada First Novel Award Year (Canada)- For readers of Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones, The Turner House by Angela Flournoy, A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, ...

Gathered here in a beautiful gift edition and accompanied by a new, original introduction by the author and Ucini's intelligent, witty, and beautiful illustrations, this volume is a must for all Ferrante fans.