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THE BARCELONA BROTHERS
ZANON, CARLOS
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Epi Dalmau is a desperate man. Early one morning, he carries a duffle bag into a dingy bar in a rough
neighborhood of Barcelona. Four other people are in the bar: his brother Alex, his good friend Tanveer, the
bartender, and a Pakistani man who wandered in to use the restroom. Epi grabs a hammer out of his duffle bag
and attacks Tanveer. After a brief struggle and a couple of blows, Tanveer lies dead on the floor and Epi flees the
bar. Alex and the bartender plan to find and protect Epi, while blaming the murder on the unfortunate Pakistani
man, who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Meanwhile, Epi is hunting for Tiffany, the woman of
his dreams and the reason behind the murder. What he'll do when he finds her, and what drove him to brutal
violence are the subjects of Carlos Zanón's gritty, unflinching novel, set in a city tourists never see.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 40,000
OTHER PRESS 304 PAGES
9781590515181
$17.95 TP Original
AUGUST 2012
THE BARD'S OATH
BERTIN, JOANNE
By the author of The Last Dragonlord.
FANTASY 1ST PRINTING 25,000
TOR 432 PAGES
9780312873707 SERIES: DRAGONLORD
$29.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
THE BARTENDER'S TALE
DOIG, IVAN
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the
chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named
Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago.The pair make an odd
kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when
Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back
when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her
and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty’s life
and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone’s vision but his own. As Rusty
struggles to decipher the oddities of adult behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig
wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of
childhood.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
RIVERHEAD 400 PAGES
9781594487354
$29.50 HC
AUGUST 2012
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