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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOGMuriel BarberyGourmet RhapsodyTranslated from the Frenchby Alison AndersonIn the heart of Paris, in theposh building made famous inThe Elegance of the Hedgehog,the greatest food critic in theworld, is dying. Revered by someand reviled by many, MonsieurPierre Arthens has been lordingit over the world’s most esteemedchefs for years, passing judgmenton their creations, deciding theirfates with a stroke of his pen,destroying and building reputationson a whim. But now,during these his final hours,his mind has turned to simplerthings. He is desperatelysearching for that singular flavor, that sublime something once sampled,never forgotten, the Flavor par excellence. Indeed, this flamboyant andself-absorbed man desires only one thing before he dies: one last taste.Thus begins a charming voyage that traces the career of Monsieur Arthensfrom childhood to maturity across a celebration of all manner of culinarydelights. Alternating with the voice of the supercilious Arthens is a chorusbelonging to his acquaintances and familiars—relatives, lovers, a would-beprotégé, even a cat. Each will have his or her say about Monsieur Arthens,a man who has inspired only extreme emotions in people. Here, as inThe Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery’s story celebrates life’ssimple pleasures and sublime moments while condemning the arroganceand vulgarity of power.• Advance Reading Copies available• Reviews: a selection of foreign reviews available on request and atwww.europaeditions.com• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 160 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-95-2 • $15.00 • FictionTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: September 2009 • Territories: World (except UK, EU)2

SEPTEMBERPhoto Catherine Hélie © Editions GallimardAbout the AuthorMuriel Barbery was born in 1969 in Casablanca. She studied philosophyat the Ecole Normale Supérieure and worked for many years as aphilosophy teacher in France. Her New York Times bestselling novelThe Elegance of the Hedgehog (Europa Editions 2008) has been publishedin over twenty languages. Barbery now lives in Japan and is workingon a third novel.About the TranslatorFor Europa Editions, Alison Anderson has translated two novels by SélimNassib, I Loved You for Your Voice and The Palestinian Lover, TokyoFiancée by Amélie Nothomb, The Most Beautiful Book in the World byEric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and Muriel Barbery’s bestselling novel TheElegance of the Hedgehog. She lives near Lausanne, Switzerland.Praise“In Gourmet Rhapsody, Barbery best expresses her talent, demonstratingsensitivity and profound understanding both of life’s many flavors and ofthe ways of the human soul, with all its weaknesses and contradictions.”—Food & Beverage Magazine (Italy)“Muriel Barbery possesses a controlled, rich, and precise language, onethat allows readers to taste the very flavors described.”—Corriere della Sera“In the pages of this book, Barbery shows off her finest gift: lightness.”—La Repubblica3

SEPTEMBERValeria ParrellaFor Grace ReceivedTranslated from the Italianby Antony ShugaarModern-day Naples is a cityteeming with contradictions,a chaotic metropolis in whichmodernity collides with history,a frenetic port city whose inhabitantsare as volatile and as contraryas the city itself. From thisrough mix Valeria Parrella hasdrawn the four exceptionalnovellas that comprise For GraceReceived. Here is a portrait of aNaples spanning past and present:the end of the era of tobaccosmuggling and the unrestrainedspread of hard drugs; the vivacityof the traditional extended familyand the crushing solitude of countless anonymous loners; the fortitude ofyoung men and women forced to make ends meet while their parents servetime, and the long, hard haul of single mothers as they attempt to bring uptheir kids amidst violence and despair. In Valeria Parrella’s Naples, life,love and happiness must all be pursued with passion, or not at all.The stories in this collection represent some of the finest short fiction tohave emerged from Italy in recent years. Winner of the 2005 RenatoFusini Prize, the 2006 Zerilli-Marimò Prize, and among the finalists forItaly’s most prestigious literary award, the Strega, For Grace Receivedannounces the English debut of a remarkable new literary talent.• Author Tour: September 2009 (details t.b.a.)• Advance Reading Copies available• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 144 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-94-5 • $15.00 • Fiction/Short StoriesTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: September 2009 • Territories: World4

SEPTEMBERAbout the AuthorValeria Parrella was born in 1974 and lives in Naples. Since the publicationin 2003 of her debut short story collection, Fly and Whale, she hasbeen widely regarded as one of Italy’s most exciting young authors.Parrella is also the author of the novels The White Space (2008) andThe Verdict (2007).About the TranslatorFor Europa Editions, Antony Shugaar has translated Margherita Dolce Vitaand Timeskipper by Stefano Benni, Carmine Abate’s Between Two Seas,First Execution by Domenico Starnone, and two novels by MassimoCarlotto, The Fugitive and Poisonville.Praise“A voice that is new, original, and decidedly special.”—Rolling Stone (Italy)“It’s been a long time—maybe since the times of Pasolini himself—sincewe last had the impression, as we do here, that literature was somehowconnected to politics and society, or even that it could have some impacton them both.”—Vanity Fair (Italy)“Parrella is the best of our authors. Her books are a (rare) example ofintellectual maturity and honesty.”—Il Giornale“Parrella’s women seem to have emerged from the novels of Balzac,Tolstoy, or Dostoyevsky: this book is a further confirmation of a talentcapable of drawing from literature as well as from life.”—La Repubblica5

SEPTEMBERLia LeviThe Jewish HusbandTranslated from the Italianby Antony ShugaarIt is 1938 and fascist Italy hasimposed its infamous race laws.A young Jewish professor entertainsa tormented passion forthe beautiful and enigmaticSonia. She is everything that heis not: the privileged daughterof a family that is wealthy,prominent, and above all, gentile.Though he has won heraffections, the price has beengreat. He has had to deny hisorigins in order to enter thatjealously guarded circle of intimatescomposed of her familyand their friends. It is a worldthat has no use for him and that will now force him into humiliating andpainful compromises.Winner of the Moravia Price for fiction, The Jewish Husband is a bittersweetstory of passion and hatred, cruelty and oppression. It is anaccount of a country and a time about which too little has been written,and the terrible consequences of that period’s race laws. Above all it is atender love story set at a time in which the world and its inhabitantsappeared to have completely lost their ability to show tenderness.• Advance Reading Copies available• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 176 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-93-8 • $15.00 • FictionTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: September 2009 • Territories: World6

SEPTEMBERPhoto © Raffaella ContiAbout the AuthorLia Levi was the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Shalom and isthe author of many books for children and adults. She has been awardedthe Elsa Morante First Novel Prize (1994), the Castello Prize for Fiction(1994) and the Moravia Prize (2001). She lives in Rome.About the TranslatorFor Europa Editions, Antony Shugaar has translated Margherita DolceVita and Timeskipper by Stefano Benni, Carmine Abate’s Between TwoSeas, First Execution by Domenico Starnone, and Massimo Carlotto’sThe Fugitive.Praise“From her earliest novels, Levi’s supple, calm and poised language—apristine and faultless language—has been her most abiding characteristicand her greatest strength.”—Leggere Donna“Lia Levi relates an exemplary tale of subsidence and redemption, ofsmall lives engulfed in the vortex of history.”—Il Messaggero“Levi’s writing, as it nears the central drama, begins to vibrate, and as itdoes so the story itself vibrates, enveloping the reader and filling him withemotion.”—Corriere della Sera7

OCTOBERBoualem SansalThe GermanMujahidTranslated from the Frenchby Frank WynneTHE FIRST ARAB NOVELTO CONFRONT THE HOLOCAUSTBased on a true story andinspired by the work of PrimoLevi, The German Mujahid is aheartfelt reflection on guilt andthe harsh imperatives of history.The two brothers Schiller,Rachel and Malrich, couldn’t bemore dissimilar. They wereborn in a small village inAlgeria to a German father andan Algerian mother, and raisedby an elderly uncle in one of the toughest ghettos in France. But therethe similarities end. Rachel is a model immigrant—hard working,upstanding, law-abiding. Malrich has drifted. Increasingly alienated andangry, a bleak future seems assured. Then Islamic fundamentalists murderthe young men’s parents in Algeria and the event transforms the destiniesof both brothers in unexpected ways. Rachel discovers the shockingtruth about his family and buckles under the weight of the sins of hisfather, a former SS officer. Now Malrich, the outcast, will have to facethat same awful truth alone.Banned in the author’s native Algeria for the frankness with which itconfronts several explosive themes, The German Mujahid is a trulygroundbreaking novel. For the first time, an Arab author directlyaddresses the moral implications of the Holocaust. But this richly plottednovel also leaves its author room enough to address other equally controversialissues—Islamic fundamentalism and Algeria’s “dirty war” of theearly 1990s, for example; or the emergence of grim Muslim ghettos inFrance’s low-income housing projects. Boualem Sansal confronts theseand other explosive questions with unprecedented sincerity and courage.• Advance Reading Copies available• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 240 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-92-1 • $15.00 • FictionTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: October 2009 • Territories: World (except UK, EU, AUS, NZ)8

OCTOBERPhoto Catherine Hélie © Editions GallimardAbout the AuthorBoualem Sansal was born in 1949 in Algeria. Since his debut novel,Le serment des barbares, winner of the Best First Novel Prize in France in1999, he has been widely considered one of his country’s most importantcontemporary authors. Sansal lives with his wife and two daughtersin Algeria.About the TranslatorAuthor and translator Frank Wynne was born in Ireland in 1962. He hastranslated numerous books by Michel Houellebecq, novels by PierreMérot and Ahmadou Kourouma, and graphic novels by Enki Bilal,Lorenzo Mattotti, and Max Cabanes. He and Houellebecq were jointlyawarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the novelAtomised. His translation of Frederic Beigbeder’s Windows on the Worldwon the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; Holiday in a Coma,by the same author, won the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize.Praise“The German Mujahid, winner of the RTL-Lire Prize for fiction, is amarvelous, devilishly well-constructed novel . . . Terror, doubt, revolt,guilt, and despair—an entire range of sentiments is admirably depictedin this book.”—L’Express (France)“With extraordinary eloquence, Sansal condemns both the [Algerian] militaryand Islamic fundamentalists; he decries that Algeria crippled by trafficking,religion, bureaucracy, the culture of illegality, of coups, and ofclans, career apologists, the glorification of tyrants, the love of flashy materialism,and the passion for rants.”—Lire“The German Mujahid deals with the fine line between the destructivepower wielded by Islamic fundamentalism today and the power of anothermovement that left an indelible mark on history: Nazism.”—Haaretz (Israel)9

OCTOBERMassimo Carlottoand Marco VidettaPoisonvilleTranslated from the Italianby Antony ShugaarPoisonville is a noir thrillerpar excellence—there’s murder,moral ambiguity, and a protagonistwho is hardly heroic. In this#1 bestselling noir novel, however,the killer is not an individualbut an entire system.The heavily industrializednortheast, Italy’s richest region,is undergoing dramatic change.It once drove the nation’seconomic boom; it was oncea regional superpower, affluentand arrogant, a land that abidedonly its own rules. But then the factory owners began moving their operationseast, across the border to former soviet countries where labor wascheap and regulatory bodies absent. With the factories, the jobs, and theriches gone, new elements began insinuating themselves into the old system,and the Brahmin families of the northeast began employing increasinglyviolent methods to protect their status and their wealth. Oncerenowned for its economic might, the region is now infested by organizedcrime, trafficking of every commodity, including human, ranks ofmedia personalities and politicians on the payrolls of rich families andmobsters, and an ongoing environmental catastrophe.Welcome to Poisonville! Here, the young lawyer Francesco, scion of theregion’s second richest family, will have to decide between business asusual or a violent rupture with the ways of the past. The wrong choicecould cost him his life.• Advance Reading Copies available• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 240 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-91-4 • $15.00 • FictionTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: October 2009 • Territories: World10

OCTOBERPhoto © Basso CannarsaAbout the AuthorsMassimo Carlotto is the author of The Goodbye Kiss (nominated forthe Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe award), Death’s DarkAbyss, and The Fugitive, an autobiographical account of his time on therun after being falsely accused of murder. He is one of Italy’s mostpopular authors and a major exponent of the Mediterranean noir novel.Marco Videtta is a well-known screenwriter and the author of severalsuccessful Italian television series. Poisonville, written with MassimoCarlotto, is his first novel. He is the author of a new novel, an historicalnoir entitled Un bell’avvenire.About the TranslatorFor Europa Editions, Antony Shugaar has translated Margherita DolceVita and Timeskipper by Stefano Benni, Carmine Abate’s Between TwoSeas, First Execution by Domenico Starnone, and Massimo Carlotto’sThe Fugitive.Praise“Whoever begins this book must necessarily finish it—it cannot be abandonedhalfway through. And whoever finishes it will never forget it—it’sa book that doesn’t easily fade from one’s memory.”—La Stampa“Poisonville is a black fable that exposes that dark side of the wealth thathas been generated over the last few decades . . . As always, Carlottoentrusts his brand of noir with an important role: that of revealing thetruth, of denouncing wrongdoings, of informing the public.”—Il Mattino“Corruption. Cynicism. Illegality. Collusion. The world of business asdescribed by Massimo Carlotto in Poisonville is frightening as hell.”—La Repubblica11

NOVEMBERRomano BilenchiThe ChillTranslated from the Italianby Ann GoldsteinRomano Bilenchi’s classic comingof age story, never beforepublished in English, is set innorthern Tuscany in the 1920s.The small hill towns and rollingTuscan countryside provide asuggestive and constantlychanging backdrop to a storythat is thoroughly Italian in itsparticulars—its smells, soundsand sights—but universal in itsthemes.Here, the changing seasons stirboth the vibrant hues ofBilenchi’s Tuscany and themany moods of his young nameless protagonist. But the abiding atmospherein this tale is, as the title suggests, wintery. Following the death ofhis beloved grandfather, a chill has descended upon the teenage narratorof this classic tale, leaving him estranged from friends, family, and eventuallyfrom nature itself—although always vivid and animated, the naturalsplendor of central Italy becomes increasingly harsh and hostilethroughout this story. The protagonist’s growing awareness of his ownand others’ sexuality leads to a series of difficult, confusing encountersthat push him even further within himself. Each small awakening, everyintimation of the adult world, with all its alarming ribaldry and vulgarity,drives him further from his kind. His reluctant journey into the adultworld culminates in a seemingly innocent erotic adventure that, whendiscovered, will possess all the destructive potential of a natural disasterand at the same time all the potential for rebirth of a new spring.• Advance Reading Copies available• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 120 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-90-7 • $15.00 • FictionTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: November 2009 • Territories: World12

NOVEMBERAbout the AuthorRomano Bilenchi was born near Siena, Tuscany, in 1909. He was a memberof the Italian Resistance during the Fascist period and in the yearsfollowing the end of WWII became an active member of the ItalianCommunist Party. Winner of the prestigious Viareggio Prize in 1972,he published over ten novels and several collections of short stories andessays in his lifetime, and was close friends with some of the major figuresof his age, including Eugenio Montale and Ezra Pound. Bilenchi diedin Florence in 1989.About the TranslatorAnn Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. Her translations includework by Pope John Paul II and Pier Paolo Pasolini. For EuropaEditions, she has translated three novels by Elena Ferrante (The Days ofAbandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter), The Worst Intentionsby Alessandro Piperno, Amara Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations Over anElevator in Piazza Vittorio, and The Father and the Foreigner by GiancarloDe Cataldo. She recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award forthe translation of the complete works of Primo Levi.13

NOVEMBERJane GardamThe Man in theWooden HatThe New York Times called SirEdward Feathers one of themost memorable characters inmodern literature. A lyricalnovel that recalls his fully livedlife, Old Filth has beenacclaimed as Jane Gardam’smasterpiece, a book where lifeand art merge. And now thatbeautiful, haunting novel hasbeen joined by a companionthat also bursts with humor andwisdom: The Man in theWooden Hat.Old Filth was Eddie’s story.The Man in the Wooden Hat isthe history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty,a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the durationin a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister,handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed toromance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s.As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprisingfulfillment of the 50-year union of two remarkable people, the novel is atriumph. The Man in the Wooden Hat is fiction of a very high order froma great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power. It willbe read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readerswho found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and so thoroughlysatisfying.• Advance Reading Copies available• Reading Group Guide available at www.europaeditions.comTPO • pp 240 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-89-1 • $15.00 • FictionTrim Size: 5¼ x 8¼ • Pub month: November 2009 • Territories: World (except CAN, EU, UK andits territories)14

NOVEMBERAbout the AuthorJane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the WhitbreadPrize for Best Novel of the Year. In addition to Old Filth, her booksinclude The Queen of the Tambourine and the story collection The Peopleon Privilege Hill. She lives in England with her husband.Praise for Old FilthShortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize.Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.“Excellent and compulsively readable . . . The miracle of Old Filth is thatits hero eludes sociological or psychological pigeonholing . . . He is alsotriumphantly his own man, with a life full of unexpected turns and eventsof high comedy.”—The New York Times Book Review“[Old Filth] will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fictionthat is intelligent, witty, sophisticated, and—a quality encountered all toorarely in contemporary culture—adult.”—The Washington Post15

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLIST (alphabetical by author)Carmine AbateBetween Two Seas“A moving portrayal of generational continuity.”—Kirkus192 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-40-2Salwa Al NeimiThe Proof of the Honey“Al Neimi announces the end of a taboo in the Arabworld: that of sex!”—Reuters144 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-68-6Alberto AngelaA Day in the Life of Ancient Rome“Fascinating and accessible.”—Il Giornale384 pp • $16.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-71-6Muriel BarberyThe Elegance of the Hedgehog“Gently satirical, exceptionally winning and inevitablybittersweet.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post336 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-60-0Stefano BenniMargherita Dolce Vita“A modern fable…hilarious social commentary.”—People240 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-20-4Timeskipper“Benni again unveils his Italian brand of magicalrealism.”—Library Journal400 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-44-0Massimo CarlottoThe Goodbye Kiss“A masterpiece of Italian noir.”—Globe and Mail160 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-05-1Death’s Dark Abyss“A remarkable study of corruption and redemption.”—Kirkus (starred review)160 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-18-1The Fugitive“[Carlotto is] the reigning king of Mediterranean noir.”—The Boston Phoenix176 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-25-916

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLISTFrancisco ColoaneTierra del Fuego“Coloane is the Jack London of our times.”—Alvaro Mutis176 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-63-1Giancarlo De CataldoThe Father and the Foreigner“A slim but touching noir novel from one of Italy’s bestwriters in the genre.”—Quaderni Noir160 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-72-3Shashi DeshpandeThe Dark Holds No Terrors“[Deshpande is] an extremely talented storyteller.”—Hindustan Times272 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-67-9Helmut DubielDeep In the Brain: Living with Parkinson’s Disease“A book that begs reflection.”—Die Zeit160 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-70-9Steve EricksonZeroville“A funny, disturbing, daring and demandingnovel—Erickson’s best.”—The New York Times Book Review352 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-39-6Elena FerranteThe Days of Abandonment“The raging, torrential voice of [this] author is somethingrare.”—The New York Times192 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-00-6Troubling Love“Ferrante’s polished language belies the rawness of herimagery.”—The New Yorker144 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-16-7The Lost Daughter“So refined, almost translucent.”—The Boston Globe144 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-42-617

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLISTJane GardamOld Filth“Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorablecharacters.”—The New York Times Book Review304 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-13-6The Queen of the Tambourine“A truly superb and moving novel.”—The Boston Globe272 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-36-5The People on Privilege Hill“Engrossing stories of hilarity and heartbreak.”—Seattle Times208 pp • $15.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-56-3Alicia Giménez-BartlettDog Day“Delicado and Garzón prove to be one of the moreengaging sleuth teams to debut in a long time.”—The Washington Post320 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-14-3Prime Time Suspect“A gripping police procedural.”—The Washington Post320 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-31-0Death Rites“Petra is developing into a good cop, and her earnestefforts to assert her authority…are worth cheering.”—The New York Times304 pp • $16.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-54-9Katharina HackerThe Have-Nots“Hacker’s prose soars.”—Publishers Weekly352 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-41-9Patrick HamiltonHangover Square“Patrick Hamilton’s novels are dark tunnels of misery,loneliness, deceit, and sexual obsession.”—New York Review of Books336 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-06-818

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLISTJames Hamilton-PatersonCooking with Fernet Branca“Irresistible!”—The Washington Post288 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-01-3Amazing Disgrace“It’s loads of fun, light and dazzling as a peacock feather.”—New York Magazine352 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-19-8Rancid Pansies“Campy comic saga about hack writer and self-styled‘culinary genius’ Gerald Samper.”—Seattle Times288 pp • $15.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-62-4Seven-Tenths. The Sea and Its Thresholds“Not since Rachel Carson have I heard such eloquence,such passion for the sea and everything it means to us.”—The New York Review of Books416 pp • $16.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-69-3Alfred HayesThe Girl on the Via Flaminia“Immensely readable.”—The New York Times160 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-24-2Jean-Claude IzzoTotal Chaos“Izzo’s Marseilles is ravishing.”—Globe and Mail256 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-04-4Chourmo“A bitter, sad and tender salute to a place equallyimpossible to love or leave.”—Kirkus (starred review)256 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-17-4Solea“[Izzo is] a talented writer who draws from the deep,dark well of noir.”—The Washington Post208 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-30-3The Lost Sailors“Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep.”—Time Out New York272 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-35-8A Sun for the Dying“Beautiful, like a black sun, tragic and desperate.”—Le Point224 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-59-419

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLISTGail JonesSorry“Jones’s gift for conjuring place and mood rarelyfalters.”—Times Literary Supplement240 pp • $15.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-55-6Matthew F. JonesBoot Tracks“A gritty action tale.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer208 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-11-2Ioanna KarystianiThe Jasmine Isle“A modern Greek tragedy about love foredoomedand family life.”—Kirkus288 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-10-5Gene KerriganThe Midnight Choir“The lethal precision of his closing punches leavequite a lasting mark.”—Entertainment Weekly368 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-26-6Little Criminals“A great story…relentless and brilliant.”—Roddy Doyle352 pp • $16.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-43-3Peter KocanFresh Fields“A stark, harrowing, yet deeply courageous workof immense power and magnitude.”—Quadrant304 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-29-7The Treatment and the Cure“Kocan tells this story with grace and humor.”—Publishers Weekly256 pp • $15.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-45-7Helmut KrausserEros“Helmut Krausser has succeeded in writing a greatGerman epochal novel.”—Focus352 pp • $16.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-58-720

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLISTAmara LakhousClash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio“Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands?Just possibly.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer144 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-61-7Carlo LucarelliCarte Blanche“Lucarelli proves that the dark and sinister are betterevoked when one opts for unadulterated grit and grime.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune128 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-15-0The Damned Season“De Luca…is a man both pursuing and pursued. Andthat makes him one of the more interesting figuresin crime fiction.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer128 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-27-3Via delle Oche“Delivers a resolution true to the series’ moralrelativism.”—Publishers Weekly160 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-53-2Edna MazyaLove Burns“Combines the suspense of a murder mystery withthe absurdity of a Woody Allen movie.”—Kirkus224 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-08-2Sélim NassibI Loved You for Your Voice“Nassib spins a rhapsodic narrative out of the indissolubleconnection between two creative souls.”—Kirkus272 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-07-5The Palestinian Lover“A delicate, passionate novel in which history and lifeare inextricably entwined.”—RAI Books192 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-23-5Amélie NothombTokyo Fiancée“Intimate and honest…depicts perfectly a nontraditionalromance.”—Publishers Weekly160 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-64-821

EUROPA EDITIONS BACKLISTAlessandro PipernoThe Worst Intentions“A coruscating mixture of satire, family epic, Proustianmeditation, and erotomaniacal farce.”—The New Yorker320 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-33-4Eric-Emmanuel SchmittThe Most Beautiful Book in the World“Nine novellas, parables on the idea of a future, filledwith redeeming optimism.”—Lire Magazine192 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-74-7Domenico StarnoneFirst Execution“Starnone’s books are small theatres of action, bothphysical and psychological.”—L’espresso (Italy)176 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-66-2Joel StoneThe Jerusalem File“Joel Stone is a major new talent.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer160 pp • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-65-5Benjamin TammuzMinotaur“A novel about the expectations and compromises thathumans create for themselves.”—The New York Times192 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-02-0Chad TaylorDeparture Lounge“There’s so much pleasure and bafflement to be derivedfrom this thriller.”—The Chicago Tribune176 pp • $14.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-09-9Roma TearneMosquito“Vividly rendered…Wholly satisfying.”—Kirkus352 pp • $16.95 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-57-0Bone China“Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive effects of civilstrife on private lives and the redemptiveness of art.”—The Guardian400 pp • $16.00 • ISBN: 978-1-933372-75-422

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