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Liana Levi
Foreign Rights
2015-2016
Liana
Iain
Levison
Levi
Fiction
Mindreader
For a few days now, Snowe, a cop in charge of the rule of law and
order in a little Michigan town, has been aware of a strange power:
he can read people’s minds. It was while arresting a junkie that he
first realised it and, since then, arrests and investigations have taken a
much more positive turn for the police. In another part of the country,
Brooks Denny, a prisoner on death row, is experiencing the same phenomenon. The government has noticed that his prowess in jailhouse
poker is putting a tidy sum in his prison bank account.They send Agent
Terry Dyer to investigate. Oddly, Brooks can’t read the thoughts of this
young woman… At the end of their interview, Terry makes Brooks a
very tempting offer: to accompany her to the UN to assist—thanks
to his gift—in negociations between an African head of state and the
American government. In exchange, his life will be spared. It’s surely
too good to be true, but Brooks gives it a go… Until he realises he’s
being manipulated and flees, in the middle of New York. The FBI has no
other choice than to call the psychic cop Snowe to the rescue.
Iain Levison draws us into one of those suspenses only he knows how
to write.Through the, at times funny, at times tragic, unexpected fate of
his characters, he denounces the manipulation and surveillance, at the
highest levels of state, of anonymous citizens.
Iain Levison was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1963 and came to the US in 1971.
After graduating high school, he returned to the UK to join the British Army.
Three years later, he returned to the US,
where he has since worked as a truck
driver, house painter, Alaskan crab fisherman, and emergency medical technician. These experiences inspired his first
book: A Working Stiff Manifesto. His first
novel Since the Layoffs (Soho Press ; Un
petit boulot in France-more than 50.000 copies sold) attracted much
attention. We were the first publisher of his second novel Une canaille
et demie (2006;15.000 copies sold) which has also been published in
Germany (Matthes und Seitz), The Netherlands (De Geus) and UK+USA
(Bitter Lemon Press). His last novel Arrêtez-moi là ! (The Cab
Driver) was published in France in 2011 (more than 30.000
copies sold) an in Germany (Zsolnay/Deuticke) in 2012. And the
cinema loves him. Arrêtez-moi là!, directed by Gilles Bannier, with
Reda Kateb, is due for release. And Un petit boulot, directed by Pascal
Chaumeil, featuring Romain Duris and Michel Blanc, is due for release too.
Original Manuscript in English
available
Novel. 240 pages. October 2015
Foreign Sales :
Germany (Zsolnay/Deuticke)
Press reviews
“Iain Levison enthrals us here as
never before with his feel for
situations, his humour, and his
rapid punch.” Livres Hebdo
Contact I Sylvie Mouchès I [email protected] I www.lianalevi.fr
Liana
Paola
Pigani
Levi
Fiction
From Elsewhere
In the spring of 1999, Mirko and his sister Simona, twentyish Albanians from Kosovo, fled their war-torn country. The road to exile
led them for a certain time to Italy, then to a transit camp in the
French upper-Loire region. In 2001, they decide to try their luck
in Lyon. Simona is a fighter and enthusiastic. She very quickly finds
work, makes friends, and with astonishing determination learns
French. She makes the deliberate choice of integration, while her
brother, more reserved, carries within him a nostalgia for all he
has left behind in Kosovo. For him, French is the language of the
foremen and of the street. During the day, he works on building
sites. At night, he sleeps in a shelter. In his free time, he makes
for the outskirts of town where he paints the walls with furious
graffiti. And this is how he meets Agathe, walks in and around the
city with her, and, in the face of the still raw after-effects of war,
shares a fragile kind of love.
With great restraint, this novel recounts the stages in the life of
refugees in the metropolis that, from 1999, became the favored
reception point for Kosovar exiles in France. Along the way: the
beauty of the city, art, immigration, difference, liberty, and faith in
Literature, 176 pages
human beings.
September 2015
All rights available
Press reviews
Paola Pigani grew up in the French
Charente in a family of Italian immigrants. Today she lives in Lyon where
she shares her time between her
work as an educator and writing.
Following her much-remarked first
novel Don’t Come into My Soul with Your
Shoes On (Liana Levi, 2013), awarded
seven literary prizes, retracing the story of a gypsy family interned in Alliers
from 1940 to 1946. From Elsewhere is
her second novel.
“A generous story.” Le Pélerin
“Magnificent and terrible chronicle
of a life left behind for political
reasons. A beautiful text, without
pathos and full of poetry.”
Toutelaculture.com
“One of the strong novels of the
new season.” Page des libraires
Liana
Didier
Castino
Levi
Fiction
After The Silence
In a monologue addressed to the youngest of his three sons,
Louis Catella tells his story. First of all, the omnipresent factory: the Midi Foundry and Steelworks, where he started at
sixteen, wore himself out at the casting furnace, and led the
union struggle in ‘68 for the victory of left-wing ideals. Then,
the charismatic head of a family: his love for Rose, driving the
ice-blue 2CV off on vacation, the education of his sons, literacy
classes at the age of forty to at last get his school certificate…
But it is a loaded life story that emerges. In July ‘74, Louis Catella
dies on the job, crushed by a several ton casting mould. And
yet the impossible monologue continues, retracing the stages
of unending mourning, and the passage into adulthood of this
son who was only seven at the time of the tragedy. For him, the
father figure is a myth built up from the memories and words
of others, the same unanimously flattering old stories trotted
out to stave off the silence. Behind Louis’ words, little by little
the son’s pretence begins to appear, as well as another path in
life for him: that of a rather bourgeois intellectual, searching for
the truth, torn between the desire to escape the burden of the
paternal ghost and the fear of betrayal.
This stunning novel, written in a brilliant, heady language, combines the chronicle of working-class France in the ‘60s and ‘70s
with a private story of absence, of a guilty conscience, of the
mixed pride and shame of proletarian origins.
Didier Castino, born in 1966, is a
professor of literature in Marseille.
After the Silence is his first novel.
Fiction 224 pages
September 2015
Press reviews
“In Didier Castino we hear one
of the strongest and most moving
voices of the new literary season..”
Le Point
“Rendered in a most beautiful style,
it brings back to life a universe
condemned to extinction.”
Le Parisien
“A book of love, profoundly striking.
Quite simply magnificent.” Télérama
“Prose at the same time precise,
rich, and sensitive that borders on
poetry.” Le Canard enchaîné
Liana
Christine
Adamo
Levi
Crime
Fiction
The Cat Equation
December 31. The twelve strokes of midnight echo through Cambridge. On one side of the River Cam, a sordid murder. On the
other side, a scientific experiment. January 1, early morning. Hammond McLeod, a young dean at St Andrew’s School of Biological
Sciences in Scotland, has come to Cambridge to sign an important
research partnership. Noreen Hartwick, though supposedly his associate in the matter, is still hesitating, for Doug Sherman, the new
director of the university computer laboratory and cosignitary of
the partnership, wants to bring in a third party, Laurel Brunner.
But she’s a specialist in a field that has nothing to do with the two
young biologists’ project: quantum physics. Shut away in her office,
she carries out her experiments on her own… Hammond asks his
assistant, Martha, to find a way of thwarting Sherman. And Martha,
though a complete novice in the subject, sets out to tackle quantum physics and its mysteries…
In the space of a day, this fast-paced crime novel takes the reader
from present-day England to Austria between the wars. Right up to
the final dénouement.
[This novel interprets events that, over the course of the centuries, have
contributed to the foundations of modern quantum physics, notably the
principles laid out in Copenhagen in 1927 by the founders of the subject… Principles so contradictory to what one then knew of the essence
of the world that no one really believed it. And which some physicists
today attempt to demonstrate through practical experimentation.]
Crime novel. 384 p October 2015
Christine Adamo is a teacher-researcher
specializing in environmental information
management. She is the author of, among
others, three novels mixing science and
suspense: Requiem pour un poisson (sold
in the Netherlands, Italy, and China), Noir
austral (sold in the Netherlands and
Italy), both published in paperback by
Folio, and Web Mortem.
Liana
Donatella
Calabi
Levi
Non
Fiction
Venice Ghetto
500th Anniversary of the Ghetto in 2016
In the 16th century,Venice was a clearly cosmopolitan town of 150,000
inhabitants. A Jewish community had been present there for centuries,
at certain periods subjected to residence restrictions but, as a rule,
free to choose their place of habitation. Yet, on March 29, 1516, the
government decided to isolate them from the civic body. Jews from
different districts of the city were obliged to gather into the “Geto
Nuovo,” located in Cannaregio, a site encircled by canals. Two gates,
opened in the morning and closed again at midnight by four Christian
guards, allowed access to the area. The inhabitants could go out during
the day to pursue their work, but at night only doctors were authorized to do so to treat Christians outside the walls. This was the first
“ghetto” in history. Originally, the term “ghetto” was a place name,
but the word would thereafter become associated with the Venetian
Jewish quarter, then with all places of segregation.
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Venice ghetto, we
publish a history of the Jewish presence in Venice, from the establishment of the «enclosed area» through to the process of assimilation, in
an approach that encompasses the city as a whole. Prioritising the living environment—housing, open spaces, shops, support services, and
religious organisation—the book highlights the relations that, despite
reglementation, clearly existed with the rest of civic society (the judiciary, corporations, other minorities). It also seeks to demonstrate the
cultural exchanges that developed between Venice, the Mediterranean
world, and other European states.
Original manuscript available
in October
French version available
November
Essay. 150 p. February 2016
Color photo dossier
Foreign Sales :
Italy (Bollati Boringhieri)
Donatella Calibi is a professor of the history of cities at Venice’s IUAV (architecture insitute). She is the author of numerous works on Venice—Rialto.
Le fabbriche e il ponte and La città degli Ebrei, Venice—and on European cities of
the Renaissance and of the 19th-20th centuries. Currently, she is the director
of the Scientific Committee for projects underway for the 500th Anniversary
of the Establishment of the Venice Ghetto and curator of the exhibition on the
same subject to be held in the Doges’ Palace (June–November 2016).
Liana
Léa
Arthemise
Levi
Fiction
A Question of
Geometry
Bonnie married young and in haste. A housewife in a pleasant
suburban neighborhood twenty kilometers from the capital, her
daily life is divided between shopping at the supermarket, trips to
the pool, and Saturday night dinners among friends—comforts well
worth a few moments of boredom and melancholy. A magazine report of a macabre discovery in a remote corner of France reminds
her that at one point in her life she was once more daring. It was
seven years ago at the end of high school. She was playing the rebel
outside the housing project, watching Alain and Adel hanging out.
One day, just like that, the boys decide to hold up a bar/cigarette
shop. More slapstick than gangsters, they threaten the shopkeeper
with stanley knives, their faces hidden beneath Babar the Elephant
pillowcases that Alain had pinched from his little sisters.The holdup
goes all wrong. To make their getaway, they need Bonnie and her
car. And at the time, Bonnie would have followed them anywhere.
Or at least as far as the little cliffside house Adel dreams of…
To recount this post-adolescent interlude, Léa Arthemise has chosen as a backdrop one those new suburban developments in perpetual expansion. By alternating the voices of the three characters
in short cadenced scenes, she has composed an incisive, original,
and very contemporary novel.
Novel 128 pages
Manuscript available
January 2016
Léa Arthemise was born in 1987 in the
Paris suburbs. She is the author of a first
novel (La Flémingyte aigüe) published in
2011 by Éditions Kyklos. The project for
A Question of Geometry was conceived
during a writing workshop within the
framework of the America Festival. She
currently lives in Montreal.
Liana
Emmanuel
Grand
Levi
Crime
Fiction
The Bastards
Will Pay
Between Douai and Valenciennes, Wollaing is one of those little
northern French towns beleaguered by unemployment. The good
Doctor Antoine Vanderbeken treats some of his patients free of
charge. The less charitable Freddie Wallet works in strong-arm
debt recovery on behalf of an illegal credit operation. So when
Pauline Leroy, a young addict whom Vanderbeken had taken under
his wing and who owes money to Wallet, is found murdered, the
locals give free rein to their anger. Wallet is the designated guilty
party and the bastard must pay—and all the other bastards along
with him. Yet behind the murder of little Pauline, police captain
Carl Buchmeyer and Lieutenant Saliha Bouazen will discover other
grudges linked to the industrial past of the town. Here, everyone
remembers the days when the Berga factory employed nearly a
thousand workers. A time of full employment and the great union
struggles, it was also the setting for violent clashes and dramatic
accidents. Berga shut down at the start of the 80s and the abandoned site has become a revolving door of serious drug trafficking.
Perhaps the shadows of the villains of the past are crossing paths
there with the murderers of today?
At times a social novel with troubling overtones, at times a fastpaced thriller, The Bastards Will Pay is a machiavellian story of ven- Fiction 380 pages
geance and redemption. Emmanuel Grand here confirms his skill at Manuscript available
in October 20th
interweaving devilishly well-paced and effective scenarios.
January 2016
Emmanuel Grand was born in 1966 and
lives in Colombes in the Paris region.
His first thriller, Terminus Belz (Liana Levi
2014 and Points Seuil 2015), was selected for, among others, the 2015 Best
Thriller Prize, and was sold to Germany
(Aufbau) and Spain (Salamandra). He
has already won three prizes and is in
the running for the SNCF Thriller Prize.
An unpublished short story appeared
in the summer collection of the «Petits
Polars Le Monde-SNCF.»
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FICTION
Bordes, Lucile,
Je suis la marquise de Carabas
Décorama
Bonnet, Jacques, À l’enseigne de l’amitié
Rights sold : Italy (Ponte alle Grazie) / Brazil (Empresa Folha da Manha)
Garcia, François, Jours de marché
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Henrichs, Bertina, La Joueuse d’échecs
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Spain (Alianza) / Greece (Modern Times) / Roumania (Echinox) / Brazil (Record) / Sweden (Elizabeth Grate) / Korea (DDWorld) / Japan (Chikuma Shobo) / Russia (Inostranka)
Kachachi, Inaam, Si je t’oublie, Bagdad
Rights sold : English world rights (Bloomsbury Qatar), China (Shanghai 99)
Kiner Aline, La vie sur le fil
Lelorain, Patrice, Adieux
Rights sold : Spain (Funambulista) / China (99 Shanghai Readers’ Culture)
Levison, Iain
Une canaille et demie
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Arrêtez-moi là ! (The Cab Driver)
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Ollagnier, Virginie
Toutes ces vies qu’on abandonne
L’Incertain
Rouge Argile
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Salaün, Lionel,
Le Retour de Jim Lamar
Bel-Air
Slanka, Cécile
Comment lui dire adieu
Rights sold : Italy (Kowalski) / Germany (Aufbau) / Spain (Ediciones 62) / Korea (Shinwon Publ.) /
Finland (Avain)
Conduite en état de grossesse
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Crime novels :
Adamo, Christine
Requiem pour un poisson
Rights sold : Italy (Effemme) / The Netherlands (De Geus) / China (Alpha Books)
Noir austral
Rights sold : Italy (Touring editore) / The Netherlands (De Geus)
Grand, Emmanuel, Terminus Belz
Rights sold : Germany (Aufbau) / Spain (Salamandra)
Kiner, Aline, Le Jeu du pendu
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Maugenest, Thierry
Venise.net
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La Poudre des rois
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Mondadori)
Manuscrit MS408 Voynich
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Croatia (Zagrabecka Naklada) / Portugal (Texto Editora)
Audimat Circus
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Nahapétian, Nairi
Qui a tué l’Ayatollah Kanuni ?
Rights sold : Spain (Alianza) / Netherlands (Querido) / Sweden (Sekwa) / Ukraine (Tempora)
Dernier Refrain à Ispahan
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Christophe Reydi-Gramond, Un mensonge explosif
Thiéblemont, Anne-Laure
Le Collectionneur
Rights sold : Ukraine (Tempora) / English world rights (Le French Book)
La Mouche d’Alexandrie
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NON FICTION
Baldinger, Aline, Petit guide des grandes religions
Rights sold : Italy (Piemme)
Balen, Noël, L’Odyssée du jazz
Ertel, Rachel, Brasier de mots
Halioua, Bruno
La Médecine au temps des Pharaons
Rights sold : USA (Harvard UP) / Egypt (Supreme Council of Culture), Italy (Dedalo),
Czech Republic (Vysehrad)
La Médecine au temps des Hébreux
Science et conscience
Insel, Ahmet et Marian, Michel, Dialogue sur le tabou arménien
Rights sold : Turkey (Iletisim) / Armenia (Actual Art) / Germany (Kitab Verlag)
Jankélévitch, Vladimir, Penser la mort ?
Rights sold : Japan (Seikyu Sha) / Italy (Raffaello Cortina) / Korea (Read & Ivory) / Austria (Turia &
Kant) / Portugal (Editorial Inquérito) / South America-castellano (Fondo de Cultura Argentina) /
Poland (PIW) / China (99 Shanghai Readers’ Culture) / Brasil (Instituto Kora)
Le Goff, Jacques et Truong, Nicolas, Une histoire du corps
Rights sold : Italy (Laterza) / Germany (Klett Cotta) / Portugal (Teorama) / Brazil (Record) / Spain
(Teorema) / Argentina (Paidós) / Poland (Czytelnik) / Netherlands (Prometheus) / Czech Republic (Vysehrad) / Japan (Fujiwara Shoten) / Russia (Text Publisher) / Korea (Icarus Media) / Greece
(Kedros) / Sweden (Agerings Bokförlag)
Selek, Pinar, Parce qu’ils sont arméniens
Rights sold : Italy (Fandango) / Germany (Orlanda) / Armenia (Actual Art)
Vasseur, Nadine, Je ne lui ai pas dit que j’écrivais ce livre
Rights sold : Portugal (Pedra da Lua)
Wieviorka, Annette, Le Procès de Nuremberg
Joint publication :
Mille Ans de cultures ashkénazes
Rights sold : Russia (Text Publishers) / Brazil (Editora do Bispo)
Les Juifs d’Espagne, histoire d’une diaspora
Les Juifs de France, de la Révolution à nos jours
Liana
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ART OPINION
Arasse, Daniel, Les Visions de Raphaël
Rights sold : China (Peking University Press)
Chastel, André, Babelon, Jean-Pierre, La Notion de patrimoine
Rights sold : Portugal (Editorial Inquérito) / Japan (Hosei University Press) / Korea (Amormundi)
Chastel, André,
Le Geste dans l’art
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Léonard ou les sciences de la peinture
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Histoire du retable italien
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Giorgione, l’insaisissable
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