Endorsed by Francisco Goldman, with blurbs probable from Junot Diaz and Daniel Alarcon National print and public radio campaigns, with an additional focuson Jewish and Latin American-interest outlets + feature coverage during National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) Serial placement possible through Harper's and excerpt currently available through the Jerusalem Post and Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature Tour: San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO; Iowa City, IA; Kansas City, MO; New York, NY and more TBD Significant galley printing. ARCs distributed at BEA and ALA. Book club outreach including the development and distribution of a reading group guide Promotional giveaways through Goodreads and Library Thing Academic marketing plans include: Consortium subject catalogs and Required Reading newsletter advertising, and promotion at academic shows like MLA and AWP Book trailer Promotion through www.blpress.com Co-op available Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light
Eduardo Halfon is the author of The Polish Boxer, Monastery, Mourning, and Canción. He is the recipient of the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, Roger Caillois Prize, José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, International Latino Book Award, and Edward Lewis Wallant Award, among other honors. A citizen of Guatemala and Spain, Halfon was born in Guatemala City, attended school in Florida and North Carolina, and has lived in Nebraska, Spain, Paris, and Berlin.
Praise for The Polish BoxerNew York Times “Editors’ Choice”
selection
International Latino Book Award Finalist“A Borgesian,
post-Communist-era, comic detective noir.” —New York Review of
BooksMore Praise for Eduardo Halfon’s Fiction“Halfon is a brilliant
storyteller.” —Daniel Alarcón“Halfon’s prose is as delicate,
precise, and ineffable as precocious art, a lighthouse that
illuminates everything.” —Francisco Goldman“Elegant.” —Marie
Claire“Engrossing.” —NBC Latino“Fantastic.” —NPR Alt.Latino“Deeply
accessible, deeply moving.” —Los Angeles Times“Offer[s] surprise
and revelation at every turn.” —Reader’s Digest“One senses Kafka’s
ghost, along with Bolaño’s, lingering in the shadows. . . .
[Halfon’s] books, which take on such dark subjects, are so
enjoyable to read.” —New York Review of Books“[Halfon’s hero]
delights in today’s risible globalism, but recognizes that what we
adopt from elsewhere makes us who we are.” —New York Times Book
Review“Extraordinary. . . . Establish[es] an affinity between
fiction and autobiography that unsettles generic divisions.” —World
Literature Today“Halfon is a master of lithe, haunting
semi-autobiographical novels.” —Jewish Book Council“With [Halfon’s]
slender but deceptively weighty books, which are at once breezy and
melancholic, bemused and bitter, he opens up worlds to readers in
return.” —Kirkus Reviews“Halfon passionately and lyrically
illustrates the significance of the journey and the beauty of true
mystery.” —Booklist“[Halfon’s narrator] may be the perpetual
wanderer, but his meditations are focused and absorbing.” —Library
Journal“Halfon gives voice to a lesser-known sector of the Jewish
diaspora, reminding us in the process of the ways in which identity
is both fluid and immutable.” —Publishers Weekly“Part Jorge Luis
Borges, part Sholom Aleichem. . . . Roaming the ashes of the old
country, uncovering old horrors, Halfon becomes an archaeologist of
atrocity. His work is fiction clothed as memoir. His chronicles are
his mourner’s Kaddish.” —Rumpus“Robert Bolaño once said: ‘The
literature of the twenty-first century will belong to (Andrés)
Neuman and to a handful of his blood brothers.’ Eduardo Halfon is
among that number.” —NewPages
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