72 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Fall Indie Books
Catapult
Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi, trans. from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth
(Oct., $16.95, trade paper)
Publicity & marketing highlights: Strategic advertising, including
social media, targeted email, and online promotion, academic mar-
keting and library promotion.
This is the first novel originally written in Arabic to win the
Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female
Omani author to be translated into English. In a starred review,
PW called the novel, which looks at the changes in Oman over
the past century, “ambitious, intense,” adding that “with exhil-
arating results, Alharthi throws the reader into the midst of a
tangled family drama in which unrequited love, murder,
suicide, and adultery seem the rule rather than the exception.”City Lights
The Promise
Silvina Ocampo, trans. from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill
Levine and Jessica Powell (Oct., $14.95, trade paper)
Publicity & marketing highlights: One of the “most anticipated”
books of 2019 on Lit Hub; published simultaneously with a sepa-
rate volume of her stories.
In the final work and only novel from Ocampo (1903–
1993), a dying woman attempts to recount the story of her
life and in the process reveals the fragility of memory and the
illusion of identity. Although, as Stephen Sparks, owner of
Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station, Calif., points out,
“Silvina Ocampo is known primarily in the English-speaking
world as a friend of Borges and wife to his collaborator Bioy
Casares, the translation of more of her work into English is a
reason to celebrate her for her own right, as one of the most
singular writers of the 20th century.”
City Lights is also publishing Ocampo’s Forgotten Journey:
Stories, trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine
and Katie Lateef-Jan, in October.Coffee House
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back:
Carl’s Book
Naja Marie Aidt, trans. from the Danish by Denise Newman
(Sept., $22.95, hardcover)
First printing: 15,000
Publicity & marketing highlights: Author appearances, including
with Coffee House contributing editor Valerie Luiselli; outside publicist;
targeted bookseller mailing and limited edition broadsides.
“This book absolutely haunted me,” says Matt Keliher of
Subtext Books in St. Paul, Minn. “Carl’s book, his story, his life,
will stay with me for a long time. Aidt’s writing on grief, bound-
less sorrow, sadness, and pain reminded me that death comes to
us all and that there is no universal path to overcoming loss. No
amount of courage nor strength that can lead us back to being
whole. Just one foot in front of the other. Every day.”©^ m i k k e ltj e l l e s e n©^
i i h a ma l h a r t h i| http://www.beacon.org“His writing is a balm for world-
weary souls.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
[of Axelrod’s critically acclaimed
The Point of Vanishing]On Sale 1/14/2020 | $23.95 Hardcover“This is a vital text—one that
offers new ways of seeing,
hearing, and consuming.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib,
author of They Can’t Kill Us
Until They Kill UsOn Sale 11/12/2019 | $25.95 HardcoverE-galleys available to download on EdelweissCOMING SOON FROM
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