FRANKFURT 10-14TH October 2012 - Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria

KISHWAR DESAI, author of Witness the Night – “A marvelous fantasy.”
JE VOUDRAIS QU’ON M’EFFACE, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
(Éditions Hurtubise)
In a novel oozing with charm and the (sometimes violated) innocence of childhood, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette tells
the story of the kids she has come to know around Montreal’s poorest neighborhood. A tale of raw emotion, this
multi-narrative novel features scenes that are both touching and funny.
VOIR – “An extremely moving book whose story unfolds, unsurprisingly, in a very cinematic fashion.”
KIND ONE, Laird Hunt
(Coffee House Press)
Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, Kind One is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in
antebellum America, written by one of the most creative prose stylists of our day, who turns his considerable talents
on America’s original sin.
Rights sold to: France (Actes Sud), Spanish (Blackie Books)
PAUL AUSTER -“Strange, original, and utterly brilliant. Laird Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on the
American scene today.”
MICHAEL ONDAATJE - “There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt’s stories, with its echoes of
habit caught in a timeless dialect.”
LA LOGEUSE, Eric Dupont
(Allied Authors Agency)
A wonderful satirical novel dealing with windmills, Cuban strippers, the Empress of Ireland and encounters that
change the course of a lifetime. Dupont’s work borders on burlesque, reverberates with nostalgia and childlike
imagination, looking at Quebèc’s history as through a magnifying glass.
Rights sold to: Canada (French, Marchand de feuilles)
LE SOLEIL – “A jewel.”
LE DEVOIR – “Euphoric and brilliant’ – Suzanne Guigère.”
LA PRESSE – “A sheer joy to read.”
LA RECITA DEI PADRI, Furio Bordon
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
Already on stage in Buenos Aires starring Federico Luppi, the play is divided in two parts, La notte dell'angelo and
Le ultime lune. In 1999 this play had been already on stage in Argentina. Also, this play will debut in Madrid, third
time in Spain in 10 years.
The two theatre pieces were rewritten to form a dialogued narrative, with the title
LA RECITA DEI PADRI (THE FATHER’S ACT):
● Le ultime lune
A very old man is waiting in his room for his son to come home and take him to a retirement home. When the son arrives,
they have a verbal fight made up of old grudges and small cruelties, but that occasionally gives way to extreme tenderness. In
the second part the old man is at the retirement home: some years have gone by, he is alone in the attic of the villa. Everyday
life in the home is mixed with memories of his past.
● La notte dell'angelo
Reality and memory surface in Anna’s soul the night she, a child psychotherapist, finds out about the suicide of one of her
patients. This event is the motor of a merciless, ferocious clash of the woman with herself and with her life, dominated by the
figure of her father, a famous actor of whose charm she has always been both admirer and victim.
EL PAIS – “A work of sharp beauty, of harsh emotions. The long dialogue with which it begins is a great piece of theatre,
possibly the best of recent theatre.”
LE FIGARO – “All this is fairly bitter, and at the same time atrocious and banal. A beautiful malinconic sonata that Furio
Bordon undertakes with the right amount of humour and sensitiveness to not be drowned in pathos.”
CORRIERE DELLA SERA – “A theatre piece that makes you perceive the deeper meaning of human solitude and of the
difficulty of knowing oneself.”
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