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Book View, April 2002

April 1, 2002

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PEOPLE Laurie Brown is leaving FSG, where she was SVP, Director Sales & Marketing. Her duties will be assumed by Jeff Seroy and Linda Rosenberg. . . Gary Gentel has been named VP Sales, Trade Division at Scholastic. He was most recently with Dorling Kindersley. . . John Schline has been made SVP, Corporate Director…Continue Reading

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International Fiction Bestsellers

December 1, 2001

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Parisian Pandemonium Vargas Plagues Paris, Orsenna’s French Lessons, And Brouwers Skewers Dutch Boomers The specter of bubonic plague coming down the mail chute rattles all of Paris in an uncannily topical work by the French archaeologist and crime writer Fred Vargas. In the author’s latest novel, Leave Quickly and Return Late (which, incidentally, was written…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A Day in the Life of God, Algiers: White Town, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Ariane Fink, Atlas, Aufbau, Cinemax, Diamantis, DVA, Einaudi, Erik Orsenna, Fabienne Roussel, Fayard, Fluttering Heart, Fred Vargas, Geert Mak, Goncourt, Grammar Is a Sweet Song, Guillermo Schavelzon, Harvard University Press, Harvill, Ildiko von Kurthy, Jeroen Brouwers, Laura Susijn, Leave Quickly and Return Late, Martin Caoparros, Martine Bertea, Monica Herrero, Moonshine Duty, My Father's Century, Osiris, Prix Femina, Regine Deforges, Saint-Exupery, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Secret Rooms, Seix Barral, Siedler, Stock, Sunken Red, The Blue Bicycle, Tokyo Sogensha, Ves Mir, Viviane Hamy, Waking the Dead

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

June 1, 2001

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Barbarians at the Gate French Success for Harnum, Boo-Hoo from Sweden, and Mortier Back on Tap in Holland With international lists seemingly locked in place, we cast a glance at a couple of interesting, if less remunerative, deals this month. First off, US agent Rosalie Siegel reports that she has started selling to so-called regional…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Albin Michel, AP Watt, Barbara Schwepcke, Belford, Bonniers, Boo-Hoo: A Dot-com Story from Concept to Catastrophe, Boo.com, Camus, Didier can Cauwelaert, Erik Portanger, Ernst Malmsten, Erwin Mortier, Exile in the Kingdom, France Loisirs, French Publishers' Agency, Gillon Aitken Associates, Hachette, Hardscrabble Press, Harvill, Hodder, Jo Frank, Joanna Rubin Dranger, Kajsa Leander, La Derniere Sentinelle, Linda Michaels, Linda Shaughnessy, Lisa Rounds, Maja Lundgren, Marcel, Marcel Ayme, Mary Kling, Max Films, Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree, Meulenhoff, Miramax, Miss Priss and Her Career, Miss Scaredy-Cat and Love, My Second Skin, One-Way Ticket, Pauvert, Phil Pochoda, Pompeii, Prix Goncourt, Random House, Robert Harnum, Rosalie Siegel, Santa Montefiore, Suhrkamp, Tara Palmer-Tompkinson, The Apparition, The Butterfly Box, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, The Education of a Fairy, The Siege of Innocence, The Stranger, The Walker-Through-Walls

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

International Fiction Bestsellers

June 1, 2000

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Dictators’ Desserts Trujillo’s Dominican Feast and Franco’s Fall in Spain, Plus Cremer Redux in Holland Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa conquers lists in both Spain and Argentina with The Goat’s Feast, a novel that’s captivated critics (it “makes one’s flesh creep,” one wrote admiringly) and has been hailed as a revival of Vargas Llosa’s best…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Antonia Kerrigan, Antonino Zichichi, Australian Literary Management, Baldassare's Odyssey, Bompiani, Carmen Balcells, Cathy Perkins, De Bezige Bij, Dom Quixote, Einaudi, FSG, Gallimard, Grasset, Harvill, Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life, I Jan Cremer, Il Saggiatore, Jan Cremer, Jan Mulder, Jose Luis Sampedro, Juan Luis Cebrian, Leonidas Trujillo, Lesbian Lover, Linda Michaels, Oceanida, Pax, Philippe Djian, Pietro Formenton, Remco Campert, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, Siciliano, Sterling Lord Literistic, Surhkamp, The Agony of the Dragon, The Goat's Feast, The Irresistible Glamor of Time, Vers Chez les Blancs, Why I Believe in Him Who Made the World, Yapi Kredi

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