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Roma Tearn's Mosquito Nominated for LA Times Book Award
Roma Tearne's novel about love during time of war and set in modern-day Sri Lanka has been shortlisted for the 2008 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Winners will be announced at this year's... -
Hedgehog one of the world's top sellers in 2008
Alison Flood in the Independent reports on the top twenty bestselling novels worldwide in 2008. Khaled Hosseini and Stieg Larsson dominated the bestseller lists around the world, but the success of Barbery's... -
Amélie Nothomb On Tour
Since her debut on the French literary scene a little more than a decade ago, Amélie Nothomb has published a novel a year, every year. Her edgy fiction, unconventional thinking, and public persona... -
"No civilization is born of nothing; it takes something from the previous one and gives to the successive one."
Two Recent interviews with Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, have caught our attention. Both appear on the Italian/American Digital Project. Interview... -
"One of the most life-affirming and, well, elegant books I've read in a long time." (Debra Bruno, Chicago Sun-Times)
The bestselling Elegance of the Hedgehog appeared on a number of 2008 year-end "best of" lists. Here are some of them: The Washington Post's five best books of 2008. More >> The... -
Preview of Europa's winter 2009 list
(January--TOKYO FIANCEE) We begin the year with Belgian-born one-time enfant terrible and now bona fide literary phenomenon Amélie Nothomb. Since her debut in 1992 with Hygiène de l’assassin... -
Hedgehog Makes NY Mag Taste Matrix
This week NY Magazine rated The Elegance of the Hedgehog close to highbrow and almost brilliant. -
Hedgehog on 3%'s 2008 best translated fiction longlist
"A destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature," 3% hopes to change the current situation in America concerning... -
Hedgehog chosen as one of the best reads of 2008
The Washington Post, following up on Michael Dirda's great early review back in September in which he described the novel as "gently satirical, exceptionally winning and inevitably bittersweet,"... -
Philadelphia Inquirer: "No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the 'new Italy.'"
Into the 'new Italy' A novelist confronts the country's modern clash of cultures. from the Philadelphia Inquirer In decades past, a kind of honorary chair existed in American publishing for a "great"...