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Henry Holt Fiction Magdalena Zyzak THE BALLAD OF BARNABAS PIERKIEL Publication: January 2014 Manuscript available: January 2013 Editor: Sarah Bowlin THE BALLAD OF BARNABAS PIERKIEL, part picaresque parody, part bawdy folk tale, is a wickedly funny, yet ominous tale set in an imaginary Slavic village in 1939. Barnabas is a bumbling pig herder with romantic delusions of grandeur. Desperate to attract the voluptuous Roosha, Barnabas gets caught up in a series of scandals and misadventures, mostly because he is too clumsy to do otherwise. Zyzak’s wonderfully eccentric supporting cast includes a suicidal priest haunted by the devil, a teenage gypsy with mysterious powers, and a dim-witted vagabond with a goat for a wife, just to name a few. Zyzak is wonderful at portraying a range of oddball characters. But it is not all humor. After all, it is 1939 in Eastern Europe. A prophet proclaims that war looms. After the hoodlums attack, Barnabas shelters some gypsies and finds himself ostracized from society. Most in the village feel the gypsies are the cause their woe. Although the narrator maintains an ironic and often mocking distance from these characters, in the end Zyzak’s humor isn’t so much searing or judgmental as it is delighting in the absurdity of the human plight. Zyzak is a bright new talent. Her language is lush, vivid, and entirely fresh. Zyzak should be considered in the same breath as Téa Obreht, Ramona Ausubel, and, of course, Gary Shteyngart. Magdalena Zyzak is the twenty-six-year-old Polish born screenwriter of Redland. This is her first novel. “Make way for Magdalena Zyzak! She writes in a way that is uniquely her own and she approaches the English language with the joy and reverence of her countryman Joseph Conrad.” – Gary Shteyngart British: Henry Holt Translation: Henry Holt
Henry Holt Fiction Betsy Woodman JANA BIBI’S EXCELLENT FORTUNES Publication: July 2012 Books available Editor: Joanna Levine In the first of a charming series, we meet Jana Bibi who has inherited her grandfather’s house in India. Eschewing the norms of her uppercrust upbringing, she moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly, and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to a town where the local merchants are philosophers, the chief of police is a tyrant, and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps the wild monkeys at bay. Settling in, Jana meets all the colorful local characters who gather at the Why Not? tea shop-- her neighbor, Feroze Ali Khan of Royal Tailors, who struggles with his business and family, V.K. Ramachandran whose Treasure Emporium is bursting at the seams with objects of unknown provenance, and Rambir, editor of the local newspaper, who burns the midnight oil at his printing press. When word gets out that Hamara Nagar is in danger of being drowned by a government dam, Jana is enlisted to help put the town on the map. Hoping to attract tourists with promises of good things to come, she stacks her deck of cards, readies her fine-feathered assistant, and Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes is born. Betsy Woodman spent ten childhood years in India, studied in France, Zambia, and the United States, and now lives in her native New Hampshire. She has contributed nonfiction pieces and several hundred book reviews to various publications, and was writer/editor for the award-winning Public Radio International documentary series, Experiencing War. “What a charming, engaging, and utterly delightful novel! It takes a writer of enormous talent and heart, to say nothing of spiritual depth, to give us a life-affirming story such as this. I am already impatient to get the next Jana Bibi book, because reading this novel put me in such a good mood…I might have a t-shirt made up that says, Fire your therapist. Read Betsy Woodman.” – Elizabeth Berg, author of Once Upon a Time There Was You and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted “As if discovered in the library of an old country inn on a dark and rainy day, Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes unfolds like an unexpected gift from another time." – Diane Meier, author of The Season of Second Chances British: Henry Holt Translation: Henry Holt Rights sold: India / Random House India
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