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Valeria Parrella on Tour
Author of For Grace Received (winner of the 2005 Renato Fusini Prize, the 2006 Zerilli-Marimò City of Rome Prize, and among the finalists for Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the... -
Our Complete Fall 2009 Catalog
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Gourmet Rhapsody debuts at #14 on IndieBound bestseller list
With The Elegance of the Hedgehog holding strong to fifth spot on the IndieBound bestseller list a full year after its publication, Muriel Barbery's new novel, Gourmet Rhapsody, has debuted at number... -
The Elegance of Muriel - Publishers Weekly Author Profile
Muriel Barbery is lovely, not unlike the exquisite prose of her runaway hit novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Why a hedgehog? She shakes her head. “The whole time [the novel] was just called... -
Rounding Up!
This past week three of our favorite authors were in the US and Canada to promote their most recent books and to meet their American readers. Over the weekend of 25 April in Montreal Domenico Starnone... -
Rare Interview with Muriel Barbery
from the Albany Times-Union “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” focuses on two super-smart, super-solitary female characters — each of whom goes to great lengths to hide and protect her... -
Liberty, Equality, Envy
from the New York Times Liberty, Equality, Envy By AMÉLIE NOTHOMB, author of “Tokyo Fiancée” April 4, 2009 Paris THE feeling in Europe, and... -
Stefano Benni's Margherita at the European Book Club
Next month’s European Book Club focuses on Italy and the title being discussed is Stefano Benni’s Margherita Dolce Vita, translated by Anthony Shugaar. Benni’s enormously popular and... -
The Big Dialogue
A nice mention of the Hog and of Europa on the Bookstore People Blog Last fall, Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary to the Swedish Academy that picks the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature said... -
Summer '09
Our Summer 2009 list is live! (May) Salwa Al Neimi on sex and the Arab city—look out for Al Neimi at PEN World Voices festival in New York this April. (May) The man behind Gerald Samper, ahem...