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

BOOKLIST, on the author – “A storyteller of exquisite lyricism”
OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE, ed. by John Joseph Adams
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? From The Wizard of Oz to
The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a
rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been
collected in a single volume—until now.
Rights sold to: US (Night Shade Books)
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY, starred review – “Readers will greatly enjoy this exploration of our world’s foremost and
ascendant speculative authors.”
QUARANTATRE, Elisabetta Severina
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
A daughter and a mother, a relationship filtered by memory, two lives that communicate through time and distance.
A novel in seven chapters where the protagonist speaks to her mother, who died over thirty years ago when she was
still a child, and she tells her of her life, following specific moments in time. A long silent and strong dialogue,
between a daughter and a mother who, even in this absence, continue to grow together.
Rights sold to: Italy (Instar Libri), Germany (List)
IL SOLE 24 ORE – “...it surfaces lightly and with restrained pain, the main trait of this brief novel, the simplicity, the elegance
and the decorum of which should be acknowledged in all possible ways.”
SALVAGE THE BONES, Jesmyn Ward
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
Winner of the 2011 The National Book Award and in a voice compared to Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee and
William Faulkner the story in Salvage the Bone isn’t really about Hurricane Katrina but about people facing
challenges, and how they band together to overcome adversity.
Rights sold in: world English (Bloomsbury), Sweden (Forum), France (Belfond), Spanish (Siruela), Denmark (Klim), China
(Shanghai 99)
KIRKUS REVIEWS starred review - “A superbly realized work of fiction that, while Southern to the bone, transcends its
region to become universal.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review - “[A] poetic second novel. [main character] Esch traces in the minutiae of every
moment of every scene of her life the thin lines between passion and violence, love and hate, life and death. Her voice [gives]
its cast of small lives a huge resonance.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL starred review - “It’s an eye-opening heartbreaker that ends in hope.”
THE WASHINGTON POST - “I’m happy to eat my words. And my spinach. I’ve just read another one of the so-called
obscure finalists, Salvage the Bones, the second book from Alabama writer Jesmyn Ward, and it’ll be a long time before its magic
wears off...”
THE HUFFINGTON POST - “The narrator's voice sparks with beauty as it urges the reader through this moving story set in
the shadow of Katrina.”
THE BOSTON GLOBE - “Lyrical… Ward’s writing is startling in its graphic clarity… talent like this shouts from every
page.”
O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - “The novel’s hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetah’s pit
bull.”
SECOND CHANCE, Sian James
(Seren Books)
This passionate story, told with skill and symphathy, tells of Kate Rivers, who has it all: London life, successful
acting career and caring lover Paul. So why, when she is called back to her Welsh home, are her past and her present
so hard to deal with? Where is Paul when she needs him? And is an affair with her handsome cousin Rhydian a
second chance at happiness or just a dangerous infatuation?
SUNDAY TIMES – “ A superb ear for dialogue and a marksman’s eye for revealing detail.”
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