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Publishers Weekly: "By turns very funny (particularly in Paloma's sections) and heartbreaking . . . [Barbery's] simple plot and sudden denouement add up to a great deal more than the sum of their parts."
This dark but redemptive novel, an international bestseller, marks the debut in English of Normandy philosophy professor Barbery. Renée Michel, 54 and widowed, is the stolid concierge in an elegant... -
Amara Lakhous's interview with Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto is Italy's foremost noir novelist and a major exponent of the "Mediterranean Noir novel." In 2007 he was a guest at the PEN World Voices festival, and on May 29 of this year... -
Europa Editions at BEA 2008
BEA 2008, May 30th to June 1st. Visit the Europa Editions booth (#2717) in the south hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center to take a peek at what's new at Europa this summer and fall. Kent Carroll... -
Elegance of the Hedgehog
from Me and My Big Mouth Hedgehog I started this book in the knowledge that it had sold over a million copies in its native France. That is a merde-load of books by anyone's standard. For the first... -
Zeroville Shortlisted for Believer Book Award
Steve Erickson's novel Zeroville has been shortlisted for the Believer Magazine Book Award. Each year the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels they thought were the strongest... -
Reading the World 2008
Brought to brilliant life way back in 2005 by Karl Pohrt (Shaman Drum), Chad Post (Open Letter/3%), and Jeff Seroy (FSG) this ingenious initiative, sublime in its simplicity and notable for its effectiveness... -
Alison Anderson's translation of The Palestinian Lover shortlisted
Alison Anderson's translation of The Palestinian Lover by Sélim Nassib has been nominated for the 2007 Northern California Book Award in the category of translation. The 27th Annual Northern... -
Numbers!
Europa Editions will bring out more titles of international fiction in original translations than any other U.S. or U.K. publisher in 2008, more than Simon & Schuster, Pantheon, Random House, and... -
"Clash..." Gets an Early Mention in the New York Times
Amara Lakhous's Clash of Civlizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (forthcoming from Europa Editions, fall 2008) received a mention in the Letters to the Editor section of last Sunday's New York... -
The Elegance of the Hedgehog to receive support from the French Voices program
Muriel Barbery's bestselling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog (forthcoming from Europa Editions in September 2008) has been selected among the 30 titles chosen between 2005 and 2008 as part ot the French...