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HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL NOVELMatch“Du style, de la verve et du panache, Jérusalmy éclaire avec malice l’aube de la Renaissance.” Paris“Un fort roman d’aventures, emballant, plein d’énergie, d’insolence et d’érudition” Lire“Une aventure digne d'un roman picaresque mâtiné de conte philosophique. (…) Après SAUVERMOZART, (…), Raphaël Jérusalmy donne naissance à un tout autre univers narratif, vibrant de saveurs, decouleurs et de sensations. (…) À la gloire des livres et de la liberté, un roman d'aventures profond et bondissantcomme son héros inattendu, le poète François Villon”. La Croixde La Ville Baugé, Jean-Félix: DIEU REGARDAIT AILLEURS(Plon, August, 2013, 288 pages)Ø An exciting historical saga that allows us to re-live a time of tremendous turmoil, and to meet majorEuropean political and artistic figures from the 1920s, from Rasputin and Nicholas II to Coco Chaneland Cocteau.Ø A unique personal story, told, fairly unusually, from an aristocrat’s point of view.Ø An uprooted narrator caught in the crossfire of history who doesn’t know how to live in a world soradically changed from the one he’d always known.Ø An interesting exploration of both the reliability of memory itself, and of how our most private memoriesaffect us.Saint Petersburg, 1917: The Russian aristocracy is in its death throes. Years later, the czar’s nephew, theGrand Duke Vladimir Vladimirovich, recounts those traumatic times that carried him far from his native land.His story is the drama of a nation. He doesn’t gloss over any of the Russian revolution’s atrocities:plotting, murder, torture, rape, massacres. A veritable love song to Russia, and a portrait of a bleeding nationtorn between white and red, we are gripped by a chapter of Russian history as seen through Vladimirovich’s ownpersonal story. From Russia to the USA, via a painful period of exile in France, a brief romance with anAmerican actress and a lonely death in the Swiss Alps, we are irresistibly drawn in by the fascinating fate of thisdisillusioned and solitary aristocrat, vestige of an era that is gone forever.Born in Paris on September 25, 1972, Jean-Félix de La Ville Baugé has done several humanitarianmissions overseas. He now lives in Russia. Since 2008, he has been Director of Publication for Le Courrier deRussie, a Franco-Russian bi-monthly. DIEU REGARDAIT AILLEURS is his third novel.Révay, Thérésa: L’AUTRE RIVE DU BOSPHORE(Belfond, October 2013, 416 pages)Ø L’AUTRE RIVE DU BOSPHORE is a powerful novel set during the occupation of Istanbul by the AlliedForces after WWI.Leyla, a modern, intelligent woman with political ties to the Sultan, is caught between her duty to herfamily and her duty to her nation. Her comfortable life with her two children and husband is threatened once theAllies occupy Istanbul. As her brother and friends fight for survival and the independence of their country, Leylamust find a way to join the struggle without sacrificing too much in the process.A distinguished Turkish family in danger, a daring German archaeologist, a French military officer whorisks his reputation in search of love, desperate Russian refugees...As East meets West, gripping characters bring alive this thorou- ghly researched, moving novel about achanging world. While a new Turkey rises from the ashes of the dazzling Ottoman Empire, Leyla learns theprice she must pay for her independence and freedom.Theresa Révay is a European writer with a French twist who has published several novels with Belfondincluding LA LOUVE BLANCHE and its sequel TOUS LES RÊVES DU MONDE, both translated into 8languages and with combined sales of over 300,000 copies.Rights sold: Ediciones B (Spain) Der Club Berterlsmann/Golmann (Germany) Turkey-auction inprogress48Contact: Mrs Anastasia Lester ; Email:anastassia.lester@gmail.com