NPR Bestseller List: "Hedgehog ranks fourth in the Paperback Fiction Bestsellers."

The Elegance of the Hedgehog has been on the list for nine weeks. The NPR Bestseller Lists are produced in collaboration with the American Booksellers Association. The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide. Muriel Barbery's wry and erudite novel won the 2007 French Booksellers Prize and was translated into English and published in paperback. This tale of a middle-aged French concierge named R...

One Year on the New York Times Best Seller List

Published in September 2008, Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog this week celebrates fifty-two weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Below, a note from Europa founders, Sandro Ferri and Sandra Ozzola Ferri. Five years ago, when we opened Europa Editions, people seemed to think we’d lost our minds. We came from a decades-long experience as independent publishers in Italy, and the idea that we would go risking our reputations,...

Summer 2010 - A Sneak Preview

From Europa Editions this season: international fiction that will take readers from South Africa to New York, from contemporary Paris to Ancient Rome. In Linda Ferri's elegant prose, Cecilia tells the story of a young girl in Ancient Rome and her enthralling journey from a restless and searching child to a woman endowed with the strength to risk her own death in defense of her beliefs. “Cecilia is a passionate and meticulous account of a fift...

Winter 2010

From Europa Editions this season: superior international fare, fiction and non, that takes readers from the Greek Islands to Afghanistan, from contemporary Berlin to Ancient Rome. Der Spiegel hailed Russian-born German author Alina Bronsky's novel as "the most exciting new arrival of the season," and Kölner Stradtrevue called it “surprising, poetic, extremely well-crafted…reminiscent of the narrative art of Zadie Smith.” Broken Glass Park (Ap...