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Sawhney in the Guardian
Hirsh Sawhney, who edited and contributed a story to Delhi Noir, out this summer from our friends at Akashic Books, gave Europa a nice mention in his Guardian blog post this morning. His article posits... -
Europa Acquires Broken Glass Park
We've acquired north american rights to the novel Broken Glass Park by Alina Bronsky, Germany's hottest literary property right now. The book caused a sensation last year in Europe and is now creating... -
Even today, some stories are universal.
"A beautiful story with a large cast of fascinating, complicated characters whose behavior is delightfully unpredictable."—The Wall Street Journal More about The Elegance of... -
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.