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International Bestsellers: Friction Among Factions

November 1, 2006

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30-Somethings, Tigers, and the Algerian Liberation Front As if being CEO of a multinational company and founder of the successful business book summary site getAbstract.com weren’t enough, Rolf Dobelli added the title of novelist to his resumé in 2001 when, on his 35th birthday, he began writing fiction. Two years later, the Swiss-born PhD published…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Alexia Varotsou, Amazon.fr, Ben Kader, Bernard Girard, Bilger, Bret Easton Ellis, Daniel Goetsch, De Geus, Diogenes, Eleni Yannakaki, getAbstract.com, Gyldendal, Henry Ford, Hestia, Himmelreich, Johnny Kniga, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Larry Page, Malo Girod de l'Ain, One Eye Red, Patricia Highsmith, Piper, Ricco Bilger, Rolf Dobelli, Sergey Brin, Susanne Bauknecht, Taiichi Ohno, The Cherubs in the Carpeting, The Google Model: A Management Breakthrough, Thirty-five, Toyota, What Do You Do for a Living?

International Bestsellers: A Jacques of All Trades

March 1, 2006

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Jealousy, Hope, Love, Frustration, Pinochet & the PLO Craftsman, plumber, brick-layer, ironware merchant, script writer, filmmaker, and now novelist, Nan Aurousseau has hewed his vast trove of on-the-job tales into a thrilling novel called Overalls. Like so many beleaguered artists, the adroit Frenchman wrote the autobiographical bestseller (not a memoir, mind you) while down and…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Abdullah Gul, Alfaguara, Alfaguara Chile, Amphora, Anastasia Ashman, Aschehoug, Aschehoug Agency, Barbara Porpaczy, Bazar, Bjartur, Bompiani, Bookhouse Publishing Corp., Carla Guelfenbein, City Editions, Dan Brown, De Bezige Bij, De Geus, Ediciones B, Einaudi, Elle, Euromedia, Eva Kuloy, Gesche Wendebourg, Grand Prix RTL-Lire, Hakon Gundersen, Hr. Ferdinand, Jean-Marc Roberts, Jennifer Gokmen, Katja Berewski, Keter, Kristin Bye, Livani, London Book Fair, Munich, Nan Aurousseau, Night of the Wolf, Overalls, Piergiorgio Nicolazzini, Pinochet, PLO, Random House Germany, RD Editora, Remzi, Seal Press, Steven Spielberg, Stock, Suhrkamp, Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, The Circle's End, The Da Vinci Code, The Misfortune of the Soul, The Woman of My Life, Tom Egeland, Ulrike Draesner

International Bestsellers: Running for Cover

July 1, 2005

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Swede Heads for the Hills, Plato’s PR at the Bar, Ultra-Marathoner Darts Through Europe A long-forgotten hero of speed gets his moment on the proverbial winner’s podium in German author Marc Buhl’s biathlon of fact and fiction, RASHIDA or THE RACE TO THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Mensen Ernst was born in the late 18th…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Albatros, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Bengt Nordin Agency, Bloomsbury USA, Boris Vian, Circulo de Leitores, Cortazar, De Geus, Dulnyouk, Eichborn, Electra, Florian Beckerhoff, Frederic Lenoir, French Publishers' Agency, Georg Buchner, Jutta Willand, Karen Duve, Lucinda Karter, Madeleine Hesserus, Marc Buhl, Maria Enberg, Mensen Ernst, Natur och Kultur, People's Press, Peter Hoeg, Phebus, Philippe Djian, Piper, Prix des Maisons de la Presse, RH Mondadori, Thomas Hack, Violette Cabsesos, Virginia Woolf, Yedam

Hard Habits to Break

February 1, 2005

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Curvings of a Self-Help Author,Imaginary Friends in France Rated-R in Taiwan Eva Agull ó has become famous after writing a successful book about addiction in Luc ía Etxebarria’s new novel A Miracle in Balance, which has charged to number 4 on the list in Spain. However, in Rush Limbaugh-like fashion, she herself has become a…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ambo/Anthos, Andrei Volos, Anna Stein, Anti-Booker Prize, Astrid Kurth, Barbara Cartland, Bompiani, Cristina Mora, Dala Publication Co., De Geus, Denoel, Donadio & Olson, Dorothea Dieckmann, Dubrovka Theatre, Frassinelli, Georg Klein, Grasset, Hanser, Heidi Warneke, Heloise d'Ormesson Editions, Huang Jien-ho, Kedros, Linda Michaels Agency, Lucia Etxebarria, Marie-Helene d'Ovidio, Matar, National Russian Literary Prize, Philippe Grimbert, Planeta, Pletron, Premio de los Lectores de la Feria de Bilbao, Premio Nadal, Primo Levi, Saffraan, Sanford Greenburger, Suhrkamp, Tusquets

Culture Shock

October 1, 2004

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Italians Battle Reclusive Tenants, Food Taster Plays With Fire, Tony Soprano Takes Normandy Like an episode of House Hunters gone terribly awry, the latest offering of Italy’s Andrea De Carlo, Wind Shear, sets two well-acquainted couples (along with their trusty real estate agent) off from Milan to visit some country houses which they hope to…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A.C.E.R., Albin Michel, Andrea De Carlo, Anne-Solange Noble, Arcade, Astrid Kurth, Bompiani, De Geus, DuMont, Ediciones del Bronce, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Elke Heidenreich, Franco, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Gallimard, Jon von Duffel, Jonathan Franzen, Juan Bas, Judith Habermas, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Laffont, Laure Merle d'Aubigne, Lumen, Machaon, Martin Walser, Mondadori, New Sprouts Publishing, Otava, Philip Roth, Sanford Greenburger, Shanghai Translation, Tonino Benacquista, W&K Publishing

Criminal Streaks

May 1, 2004

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Road Rage Hits Spain, the Devil Deals in Sweden, and a Burglary Stumps Denmark A minor fender bender on a Monday morning leads a frazzled female executive named Sonsoles to hop out of her convertible and let loose with a string of insults and profanities that would make even the most grizzled truck driver blush…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged ACER, Arne Dahl, Aschehoug, Bengt Nordin, Cristina Mora, Damm, De Geus, Espasa Calpe, Federico Moccia, Feltrinelli, Forum, France Loisirs, Francesca Dal Negro, Gaia, Gina Winje, Goldmann, Guillaume Musso, Gyldendal, Harvill/Secker, J.C. Lattes, Jan Arnald, Jo Nesbo, Lorenzo Silva, Marsilio, Modtryk, Muza, Nadal, Neri Pozza, Otava, Passigli, Piper, Planeta, Rizzoli, Signature, Sonzogno, Sophie Legrand, Susan Fortes, Symposium, Ullstein

International Fiction Bestsellers

February 1, 2003

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Realpolitik Redux Aguinis in Argentina, King’s Ransom in Denmark, and Slobo’s Serbian Adventures With the world reeling from the 1994 bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association in Buenos Aires, a Moslem scholar and a young and impulsive journalist join forces to prevent future attacks in Argentine author Marcos Aguinis’…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged ACER, Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association, Blanvalet, Borgen Publishers, Carlos Saul Menem, Cristina Mora, De Geus, Forum, Guillermo Schavelzon, Hanne Reintoft, Jens Henrik Jensen, Lattes, Laure Merle d'Aubigne, Leonhardt and Hoier Literary Agency, Lorenzo Silva, Luis Verissimo, Marcos Aguinis, Maria de la Pau Janer, Mohsen Rabbani, Nimbus Film, Norstedts/Prisma, Passigli, Planeta, Planeta Prize, Premio Nadal, Raven's Food, Ray-Gude Mertin, Rizzoli/Sonzogno, The Impatient Alchemist, The Lies that Men Tell, The Mist and the Maiden, The Shrew of Krakow, The Wolf in Banja Luka, The Women in Me

International Fiction Bestsellers

August 1, 2002

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Women’s Work Poland Gets the Menses, Millás Sizzles Spain, And Hareven Labors for Love in Israel Serotonin levels are plunging this month all over Poland, where the delightfully demented author Janusz Wisniewski comes down with Tense Syndromes (otherwise translated as Premenstrual Syndrome; the original title was Menstruation, but the Warsaw publisher deemed it “too shocking”),…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A.B. Yehoshua, Adventures of Puffy the Bear, Allison & Busby, Argon, Aschehoug, Bengt Nordin, Bjorn Helleberg, Close to Paradise, Dalia Bilu, De Geus, Espasa, Esthi Kunz, Funny Fanny, Gail Hareven, Garcia Marquez, Gavriela Avigur-Rotem, Gyldendal, Heatwave and Crazy Birds, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Janusz Wisniewski, Joanna Chmielewska, Juan Jose Millas, Laffont, Loneliness on the Net, Lord of the Flies, My Dead Husband, My True Love, Nadal Prize, Primavera Prize, Sapir Prize, Scholastic, Suhrkamp, Tadeusz Lewandowski, Tense Syndromes, The Great Diamond, The Liberating Bride, This Was Solitude, Thomas Mann, Thomas Qvortrup, Two Women in Prague, Utopia, William Golding

International Fiction Bestsellers

September 1, 2001

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One Flew Over Oslo Norway’s Fossum Gets Real, Sweden Goes Hard-Boiled, And Luna Rises Over Argentina Sweden has veered “disturbingly close to reality” in recent months as Norwegian author Karin Fossum takes the nation on a harrowing journey right up to the belfry of The House of the Insane. The book, which has been on…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A.C. Baantjer, Agneta Markas, Ake Edwardson, Argon, Beloved Poona, Bengt Nordin, Bjorn Hellberg, Bloomsbury, Cappelen, Crossword Prize, De Cock and the Drifting Corpse, De Cock and the Merry Bacchus, De Fontein, De Geus, Don't Look Back, Eirin Hagen, Felix Luna, Harvill, Het Spectrum, Intercontinental, Jamyang Norbu, John Muraay, Karin Fossum, Maran Olthoff, Martin Aldama, Norstedts, Philippe Piquier, Planeta Argentina, Prisma, Susan Schulman, The Diabolic, The House of the Insane, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, Ullstein, Veronica Berisso

International Fiction Bestsellers

November 1, 2000

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Beat the Devil Coelho Back in Brazil, Mortier in the Netherlands, And Pleijel Shakes Up Sweden Brazilian high priest of letters Paulo Coelho has conjured up The Devil and Miss Prym after two years of soul searching, and the result is a half-million-copy catechism that’s been deemed a “parable in which the characters show all…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Ageneta Pleijel, Agneta Markas, Annika Balser, April Witch, Bertelsmann, Camille Laurens, Christian Signol, Compiani, De Geus, Destino, Diogenes, Ediciones Salamandra, Elke Heidenreich, Emece Editores Spain, Erwin Mortier, Forum, Freddy Germanos, French Publishers' Agency, Gerda van Boom, Great National Book Award, Gyldendal, Harper, Harvill, He Who Observeth the Wind, In These Arms, Inga-Britt Rova, Judas' Wonderful Kiss, Kastaniotis, Lindhardt & Ringhof, Lord Nevermore, Maira Papathanassopoulou, Majgull Axelsson, Marcel, Meulenhoff, Monica Antunes, Mother's Lover, My Second Skin, Nikos, Norstedts, Objetiva, Patakis Publications, Paulo Coelho, Pauvert, Pedro del Carril, Pergaminho, Piper, Plon, Prisma, Prix Goncourt, Random House, Random Walk, Sant Jordi Asociados, Secker & Warburg, Sigrid Kraus, Sophie Catris, Suhrkamp, The 13 1/2 Lives of Capt'n Bluebear, The Alchemist, The Devil and Miss Prym, The Object, The Toxic Compounds of Arsenic, Thus Does Man Live, Urs Widmer, Van der Hoogt, Walter Moers, Werner Soderstrom, White Christmases, Zachariadis

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