Books
1977
1977 saw the Red Army Faction start its »Offensive 77«, the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the launch of Apple II in California – and the invention of the internet. What do these strange...
Turkey (Iletisim)
30 April 1945
English world rights (Seagull), France (P.O.L.)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Poland (W.A.B.)
9mm Cut
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
USA (Basic Books), France (Aubier), Poland (Media Rodzina), Romania (Nemira), Turkey (Egitim), Greece (Printa), Ukraine (Rostyslav Burlaka Publishing)
Night School
Zsófia Bán’s writing is born out...
English world rights (Open Letter), Spanish world rights (Siruela)
Abraham Meets Ibrahim
A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The...
Russia (Medina)
Leavetaking
A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.
This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator’s attempt...
English world rights (Melville House Books), Spanish world rights (Alpha Decay), Sweden (Bonniers), Czech Republic (Opus), Greece (Kritiki), Ukraine (Krapky)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Seuil), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Niels Bings), Finnland (Otava), Japan (Kawade Shobo), Poland (PIW), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Serbocroatian world rights (RAD), Israel (Am Oved)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
Ach, Europa
English world rights (Polity Press), Spanish world rights (Trotta), Russia (Ves Mir), Italy (Laterza), Korea (Nanam), Japan (Iwanami Shoten), Serbia (Belgrade Circle), Greece (Printa), Albania (Asdreni)
Europe, Europe
»In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already »among the touchstones of the new travel writing« (Newsweek), one of [...] Germany’s leading...
Spanish world rights (Anagrama), France (Gallimard), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Norstedts), Norway (Universitetsforlaget)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Pantheon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Japan (Shobunsha), Hungary (Europa), Turkey (Metis)
When We Forgot How to Speak
Throughout her childhood and teenage years Mareike Nieberding would be picked up by her father no matter where she was, if she was drunk, or who she was with. From a party at one in the morning, at seven after a shift at the bar. Her father was her protector, her comforter, an incurable optimist. When she sits in front of him today she asks herself who this greying man with freckles...
Eight Days of Revolution
Adalina and the Love of Books
When Adalina learns that the book tours...
Adorno
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Herder), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qizhenguan Media), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Manole), Arabic world rights (Tarjuman), France (Gallimard), Italy (Carocci), Korea (Saemulgyul), Japan (Sakhuin Sha)
Adorno's Heirs
Chinese simplex rights (Yilin)
Primate Society
Primatologist Julia Fischer explores the myriad...
Spanish world rights (Fondo de Cultura Economica)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Chicago UP)
African Philology
Africa is no nonliterate continent, especially so if one includes its northern coastal area: more than two thousand years ago, methods of dealing with scripts - today called philology - were developed in Alexandria. Robert Stockhammer discusses contributions to an African Philology, including works by Herodotus, Augustine, Ken Saro-Wiwa and J.M. Coetzee: epics, novels, travelogues,...
Agents of Possibility
Album
»This is not a diary«, as it states at the very beginning of the book.
So what is it then? A jumble, a jotter, a...
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Seagull), Italy (Einaudi)
Alchemy and Kabbalah
Italy (Studio Editoriale)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA (Spring Publications), Japan (Sakuhinsha), Czech Republic (Malvern)