Deals

Rolan Merullo’s two UNTITLED novels. — Roland Merullo’s two UNTITLED novels to Shaye Areheart of Crown’s Shaye Areheart Books, each in a good deal, by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)

Spanish rights to THE MIRACLES OF PRATO by Laurie Lico Albanese and Laura Morowitz — Spanish rights to Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz’s THE MIRACLES OF PRATO, to Ediciones B’s Lucia Luengo, at auction by Michael Radulescu for Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

German rights to WIFE OF THE GODS by Kwei Quartey — German rights to Kwei Quartey’s WIFE OF THE GODS the story of a big city detective in Ghana sent to a tribal place to investigate a murder to Regina Hartig at Lubbe in a preempt by Jacqueline LeDonne for Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Brazilian and German rights to THE MIRACLES OF PRATO by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz — Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz’s THE MIRACLES OF PRATO, set in renaissance Italy, the story of painter-monk Fra Filippo Lippi and young nun Lucrezia Buti who becomes his muse, lover, and mother of his children to Brazil’s Record’s Luciana Villas-Boas in a preempt by Michael Radulescu and to Germany’s Goldman/Random at auction by Jacqueline LeDonne for Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

WOODSBURNER by John Pipkin — John Pipkin’s WOODSBURNER chronicles the lives of a lovesick Norwegian immigrant farm hand, a struggling bookseller, a fire and brimstone preacher, and a pencil maker named Henry David Thoreau as their stories intersect over a fire Thoreau accidentally set which burned 800 acres near Walden Pond, to Janet Silver at Houghton Mifflin, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

IN HIS SIGHTS by Kate Brennan — Kate Brennan’s IN HIS SIGHTS, the harrowing true story of a woman stalked by a wealthy and ruthless ex-boyfriend that ultimately forces her to assume a false identity and give up any semblance of a normal life, to Jennifer Barth at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff (NA).

A BOOK OF AGES by Eric Hanson — Eric Hanson’s A BOOK OF AGES an idiosyncratic miscellany of biographical facts of the famous and infamous, including failures, rejections, dead ends, as well as early masterpieces, second chances and lifetime achievements, organized by ages one to one hundred, to Shaye Areheart of Harmony Books/Crown at auction, by agent Marly Rusoff. (N/A)

THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL by Elif Shafak – Norwegian rights — Norwegian rights to Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL which tells the tale of an exiled Armenian family in San Francisco and the Kazancis of Istanbul, whose contemporary stories conjoin through a secret that began with the 1915 massacre of Armenians to Anschehoug’s Synnove Tresselt by Michael Radulescu for Marly Rusoff Agency.

THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN by Thrity Umrigar — Thrity Umrigar’s THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN, the story of a young American couple who travel to India to heal from the grief of the death of their son and while there decide to adopt a child, but are forced to face with their own cultural imperialism, again to Claire Wachtel at Harper, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world; excl. Germany).

THE FLEA PALACE by Elif Shafak – Hebrew rights — Hebrew rights to Elif Shafak’s THE FLEA PALACE, to Ziv Lewis at Kinneret, by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.