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International Bestsellers: Russia, Russia, Russia

August 1, 2007

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“Intellectual Bestseller” may sound like a contradiction in terms for the U.S. book market, but Russia’s literary tradition of complex allegory and existential musing is still going strong. Cheap romance novels and Lord of the Rings knockoffs haven’t faltered (whatever happened to censorship?) – but Russian book prizes are what make or break many of…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Aleksander Troitsky, Alexei Ivanov, Amphora, Arkady Babchenko, Big Book Award, Boris Pasternak, Cheap Porn, Daniel Stein, Danielle Steel, Dmitri Glukovsky, Dmitry Bykov, Elena Kostioukovitch, Gallimard, GLAS, Goumen & Smirnova, Grove Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, Houghton Mifflin, How Putin Became President of the U.S.A: New Russian Stories, I Love You, Ilya Boiashov, International Rossica Translation Prize, Julia Goumen, Lena Koposova, Lenin, Limbus Press, Linda Michaels, Liudmila Ulitskaya, Lord of the Rings, Metro 3033, Natasha Perova, National Bestseller, Neither Do I, Nina Lugovskaya, Northwestern University Press, NYRB, One Soldier's War in Chechnya, Popularnaya Literatura, Seven Stories, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Sonya Adler, The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl, Times Literary Supplement, Way of Murrie, William S. Burroughs

Auf Wiedersehen: Sum’s the Word, Luxurious Bejeweled Elephants, Of Butterflies and Men

December 1, 2006

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One + one = three in Dutch author and Libris Prize winner Tomas Lieske‘s new novel My Sovereign Love about an artisan of arithmetic, his love interest, and a meddling monarch. Born in The Hague in 1528, Marnix de Veer is a mathematician, architect, and instrument-maker extraordinaire. Also a dabbler in foreign languages, he catches…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Ab Ovo Kiado, Albin Michel, Anne-Solange Noble, Arbeiderspers, Cristina Mora, De Bezige Bij, Dogan Kitap, Dom Quixote, Flammarion, Floortje Jansen, Gallimard, Giorgio Todde, Indian Passion, Insane Asylums, Javier Moro, Kathrin Scheel, Libris Prize, Linda Michaels, Mark Haddon, Martin Gulich, Mondadori, My Sovereign Love, Objectiva, Of Mice and Men, Palatinus Kiado, Piper, Planeta, Prix Femina, Prunsoop, Querido, Regis Jauffret, Robert Laffont, Schoffling, Siruela, Steinbeck, The Balance of the Souls, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Tomas Lieske, WSOY

International Fiction Bestsellers

July 1, 2001

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Going Swimmingly Dawn Dives In Down Under, Mathur Rollicks In India, and Enquist Writes Rx for Germany Making a defiant splash in Australia this month is the bluntly subtitled Dawn: One Hell of a Life, the self-told tale of Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser, who was the first athlete in the world to win the…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Agneta Markas, Anurag Mathur, August Prize, Bertelsmann, Best Seller, Captain Nemo's Library, Chandra Siddartha, Daniel Divinsky, Dawn Fraser, Dawn: One Hell of a Life, Ediciones de la Flor, Ellen Levine, Garcia Marquez, Hakan Nesser, HarperCollins India, Hodder Headline, House of Anansi, I'll Tell You More, Joseph Cornell, La Gansada, Lake Nora Arms, Light-crossing, Linda Michaels, Little Brown, Macmillan UK, Making a Minister Smile, Maria Rejt, Martin Sloane, Michael Redhill, Norstedts, Overlook, Per Olov Enquist, Reader's Digest, Renuka Chatterjee, Roberto Fontanarrosa, Rupa, Scenes from an Executive's Life, Scientific American, The Inscrutable Americans, The Royal Physician's Visit, The Swallow the Cat the Rose Death, The World Was in Error

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

March 1, 2001

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Bruit on the Baltic Johansson in Sweden, Delerm Dines On in France, and Noll Gets Warped in Germany A “determinedly girls-eye view of events” has captivated Sweden this month, as the third and final volume in 70-year-old Swedish writer Elsie Johansson’s trilogy hits the stands with what’s been praised as “an unusual kind of bildungsroman.”…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Anima Mundi, Answer Me, Antonia's Line, Arcade, Blissful Widow, Catherine Clement, Diogenes, Elsie Johansson, Follow Your Heart, French Publishers' Agency, Gallimard, Gao Xingjian, Glassbirds, Gyldenhal, HarperCollins, Hedwig Janes, Hell Hath No Fury, I Love You Too, Ingrid Noll, Joakim Pirinen, Linda Michaels, Marleen Gorris, Nancy, Ordfront, Phileine Zegt Sorry, Phillippe Delerm, Picador, Pierre Pelot, Ronald Giphart, Siesta Assassination, Susanna Tamaro, The Evening Breeze is Cold, The Swedish Monkey, The Wolves' Pact, Theo's Odyssey, We Could Almost Eat Outside, Wild Flower

International Bestsellers

September 1, 2000

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Trading Places Guillou Turns Publisher, Potter Imposter in Spain, and Bridget Jones Down Under The prolific writer-turned-publisher Jan Guillou has commandeered the top three slots in Sweden this month, all of them part of his journey through the Middle Ages. At the top of the heap is the third in his trilogy based on the…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Ana Marie Matute, Ann-Marie Skarp, Anne Holt, Anneli Hoier, Aranmanoth, Cappelen, Carmen Balcells, Chris Hopkins, Commonwealth Writer's Award, Dance With a Poor Man's Daughter, Don Jose, Doubleday, Globe and Mail, Glow, Harcourt, Headline, High Hopes, Jan Guillou, Jan Martenson, Jose De San Martin, Jose Garcia Hamilton, Judith Murdoch, Laffont, Leonhardt & Hoier, Like Water in Wild Places, Linda Michaels, Lindkart & Ringhof, Liza Marklund, Longanesi, Maggie Alderson, Michael Jacobs, Modtryk, Murder on Mauritius, New York Times, Norstedts, Ordupplaget, Our Kid, Pamela Jooste, Pants on Fire, Peg McColl, Penguin UK, Piper, Piratforlaget, Planeta, Rowohlt, Sara Arbeiderspers, Sara Thomson, Scholastic, Sigge Sigfridsson, Studio Sex, Sudamerica, The Bomber, The Kingdom at the End of the Road, The Mark of the Killer, Uniboek, Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Willy Josefsson

International Fiction Bestsellers

July 1, 2000

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French Lessons Napoleon’s Deluge in France, Coelho in Teheran, and Italy’s Wayward Professor A fiendishly degenerate account of a dead academic leads off in France this month, as the pseudonymous author San Antonio (the late Frédéric Dard) tramples all cultural propriety in his delirious novel Napoléon Pommier. Here’s the pitch: The august Professor Titan Ma…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Albin Michel, Ana Maria Martinez Sagi, Bertelsmann, Caravan Books, Chiara Ferrari, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Didier can Cauwelaert, Ediziones E-O, Elin Sennero, Frederic Dard, Goncourt, Grandi & Associati, Gyldendal Norsk, HarperCollins, Heleen van Royen, Jan Erik Vold, Juan Manuel de Prada, Klett-Cotta, Linda Michaels, Luciano de Crescenzo, MB Agencia Literaria, Monica Martin, Napoleon Pommier, Ordfront, Paulo Soelho, Rowohlt, San Antonio, Sceptre, Seuil, Sperling & Kupfer, Stefania De Pasquale, Sveva Casati Modignani, Tempest, The Corners of the Air, The Distraction, The Easy Way, The Education of a Fairy, The Happy Housewife, Vanilla & Chocolate, Virago, Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Writings

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

International Fiction Bestsellers

February 1, 2000

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Apocalypse Now Amnesia Hits Spain, Horror Bloodies France, and Pokémon Ravages Australia Perhaps in compensation for the underwhelming arrival of Y2K, this month’s bestsellers have registered a potent desire for all those missed connections, fatal errors, and world-historical upheavals we were so tantalizingly promised. In Spain, Nativel Preciado’s The Narcissist plunges into the abyss of…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Arundhati Roy, Bertrand Brazil, Camilo Jose Cela, Carlos Gorostiza, Carmen Balcells, Doubleday, Doves Fly Away, Editorial Noticias, Emmanuel Carrere, Frozen Peaches, Giogio Forattini, Goncourt, Grasset, HarperCollins India, Hodder & Stoughton, Indro Montanelli, Knopf, Laura Espido Freire, Linda Michaels, List, Lulu Wang, Madera de Boj, Mal og Menning, Massimo D'Alema, Mel Cox, Millennium Flop, Nativel Preciado, Nobel Prize, Nonino Prize, Pankaj Mishra, Picador India, Picador UK, Planeta, Planeta Argentina, Planeta Group, Pokemon, Scholastic Australia, The Adversary, The God of Small Things, The Lily Theatre, The Narcissist, The Romantics, The Tender Child

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