Deals

BLUE ARABESQUE by Patricia Hampl – Korean rights — Korean rights to Salman Aktar’s OBJECTS OF OUR DESIRE, to KoreaOne Books, by Michael Radulescu and Vince Baek of Eric Yang Agency, on behalf of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Two-Book Random House Deal for Arthur Phillips 2006 — An UNTITLED novel by Arthur Phillips the author of the best-selling PRAGUE and THE EGYPTOLOGIST, that tells the story of an aging TV director and music fanatic who develops an obsessive and peculiar relationship with a young pop singer in a comic novel about celebrity, music, love and betrayal in a very major two book deal with Daniel Menaker of Random House by agent Marly Rusoff (World)

THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL by Elif Shafak – Italian rights — Italian rights to Turkish novelist Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, which tells the tale of two families, an exiled Armenian family living in San Francisco and the Kazancis of Istanbul, to Rizzoli’s Francesca Cristoffanini, at auction in a good deal, by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL by Elif Shafak — French rights to Turkish novelist Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, which tells the tale of two families, an exiled Armenian family living in San Francisco and the Kazancis of Istanbul, to Editions Phebus, by Sandrine Paccher of Lora Fountain Agency, on behalf of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

THE MUST-HAVE MOM MANUAL FROM SARA AND STEPHANIE by Sara Ellington and Stephanie Triplett — Stephanie Triplett and Sara Ellington’s THE MUST-HAVE MOM MANUAL FROM SARA AND STEPHANIE, including mom-tested wisdom, insights, and humor, by two young mothers, best friends, and radio co-hosts with very different parenting styles, to Susanna Porter at Ballantine, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

ELLINGTON BOULEVARD by Adam Langer — Adam Langer’s ELLINGTON BOULEVARD, tells the stories of a tenant, a landlord, a broker, a buyer, an actor, a synagogue youth group leader, an entrepreneur, an editor, a publisher, a dog, a pair of pigeons, and everyone else whose lives are inexorably changed by the sale of one apartment in a rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood on New York’s Upper West Side, to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga — Wendy Nelson Tokunaga’s MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT, which follows the misadventures of a Japanese Bridget Jones who has escaped the straitjacket society of Japan to start a new life in San Francisco, only to find that her American Dream isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, to Jennifer Weis at St. Martin’s, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).

French rights to DETECTIVE KUBU AND A CARRION DEATH by Michael Stanley the pen name of two South African professors who set their serial diamond mining related murders in Botswana to JC Lattes by Anna Jarota Chodakowska in a two-book deal on behalf of Marly Rusoff and Associates.

KEEPING THE HOUSE by Ellen Baker — Wisconsin bookseller Ellen Baker’s KEEPING THE HOUSE set in a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, is a multigenerational saga of the downfall of an American family seen through the eyes of a lonely new bride and youngest member of the town’s sewing circle as she attempts to uncover the family’s story by secretly caring for their abandoned Victorian house to Random’s VP Kate Medina in a preempted significant two-book deal by agent Marly Rusoff (NA)

DETECTIVE KUBU AND A CARRION DEATH by Michael Stanley — DETECTIVE KUBU AND A CARRION DEATH by Michael Stanley, the pen name of two South African professors, introducing a charming overweight opera loving Botswana detective who unravels the mystery of a dead body found in the bush, and in doing so, uncovers a chain of murders linked to the most powerful people in the country, in a work that juxtaposes the “old” Africa of superstition, traditional tribal culture, and colonialism, with the “new” Africa of rationality, big business, and nationality to Harper Collins VP Claire Wachtel in a two-book good deal by agent Marly Rusoff (World English)