no ordinary cat - ANTHEA

UK
Weidenfeld and
nicholson
(Kirsty Dunseath)
Brazil
editora novo
conceito
Catalan
columna edicions
China
Beijing Heping
Yahua cultural
communications
co.
Finland
WsoY
Germany
droemer
Holland
the House of
Books
Italy
Mondadori
Norway
cappelen damm
Poland
Proszynski
Spain
espasa
uK Publication 16 May 2013 Fiction uK Publication 7 June 2013 Fiction
Eva Weaver
THE PUPPET BOY OF
WARSAW
THE PuPPET BoY oF WARSAW is the story of Mika,
a Jewish boy living with his mother and grandfather in
the Warsaw ghetto. When his grandfather is shot dead in
the street whilst defending a young girl from a German
soldier, Mika inherits his coat and discovers many secret
pockets in the lining. In one of the many pockets he finds
a puppet. He then discovers that his grandfather had
been secretly making many different puppets and hiding
them away in a cupboard. Mika finishes making them
and becomes a puppeteer in the ghetto entertaining the
children in the orphanage and the hospital. Then, one
day, he is discovered and forced to put on shows for the
occupying German troops.
It is also the story of Max, a German soldier stationed
in Warsaw, whose experiences in Poland and later in
Siberia’s Gulag present a different face of that devastating
war.
A war-torn legacy is passed from one generation to the
next through Mika’s puppets. While Mika himself keeps
the princess, the crocodile and the fool, Max carries
off his puppet prince and they are not to be reunited
for many years… ultimately, THE PuPPET BoY oF
WARSAW is a novel of courage and redemption.
UK
random House
US
simon & schuster
France
editions Belfond
Douglas Kennedy
FIVE DAYS
Laura is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Her twenty
year marriage has flat lined and her husband, dan, has
become a stranger to her since losing his job eighteen
months ago. So when she is invited to a weekend
conference in Boston, she jumps at the opportunity.
While checking in she gets talking with a man she
immediately characterises as grey and uninspired.
His name is Richard Coleman. He’s a fifty something
insurance salesman, also from Maine, also in Boston
for the weekend. But when a chance meeting later that
evening brings them together again, Laura begins to
discover another man beneath the salesman façade:
smart, animated and surprisingly literate.
Two lonely people meet by chance in a city not their own.
Two people desperate for a connection, yet terrified of
the implications. In his remarkable new novel, douglas
Kennedy takes the premise of a brief encounter and turns
it into a hugely compelling exploration of how and why
we fall in love, and the way in which the entire trajectory
of a life can change thanks to the music of chance.
A profoundly moving love story that inspires tears and
serious rumination, FIvE dAYS speaks directly to the
manifold contradictions of the human heart.
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