Promotional Information

Participate in the CBSD Galley Box and send copies to the top 50 or so Open Letter bookstore accounts: City Lights, McNally Jackson, Elliot Bay, etc.

Approximately 200 advance copies sent to primary publications. This list includes: New York Times, SF Chronicle, LA Times, n+1, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bookforum, The Believer, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Time Out New York/Chicago, World Literature Today, Flavorwire, Washington Post, BOMB, Literary Review, Complete Review, Words Without Borders, B&N Review, Harper's, Shelf Awareness, Quarterly Conversation, Chicago Tribune, Typographical Era, Slate, Salon, etc. Also sent to the following trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal.

Advance copies also sent to members of the NBCC Award Committee and the Best Translated Book Award Fiction Committee.

Strong push to reviewers and readers who have written about Neuman's other works (of which there are many).

Giveaway of 25 copies on GoodReads, along with contacting members who have given his other works positive reviews.

Promote on Three Percent and on social media via Open Letter's FB & Twitter accounts (over 4,200 likes on FB; almost 9,200 followers on Twitter).

Ebook available and will be mentioned on all press release materials, Open Letter website, etc.

Heavy promotion in New York during the period when Neuman is teaching at Columbia (Sept 2015).

Book Trailer, which will be promoted on Three Percent, through social media, and via other interested websites.

About the Author

Andrés Neuman was born in Buenos Aires, and grew up and lives in Spain. He was included in Granta's "Young Spanish-language Novelists" issue and is the author of almost twenty works, two of which—Traveler of the Century and Talking to Ourselves— have been translated into English. Traveler of the Century won the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, and was longlisted for the 2013 Best Translated book award, and shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Nick Caistoris a prolific British translator and journalist, best known for his translations of Spanish and Portuguese literature. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian.

Lorenza Garcia has lived for extended periods in Spain, France, and Iceland. Since 2007, she has translated over a dozen novels and works of non-fiction from French and Spanish.

Reviews

"Neuman's penchant for familial drama. . . . emerges again in these short stories, but his adventurous, stylistic virtuosity sets these works apart. . . . Neuman succeeds by this and many other measures with these sublime, surprising tales."—Booklist

"Andrés Neuman has continued to mesmerize his readers seemingly without effort. [His] grasp on the reader's attention is so total, in fact, that she can only acknowledge she has been hypnotized once the session has ended."—Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire

" Neuman demonstrates a marvelous gift for the medium of short stories, infusing each with equal parts compassion and conflict."—Kirkus Review

"These short, trenchant explorations of moments in which other realities penetrate the quotidian, or the boundary between the real and the unreal, truly merit comparisons to Julio Cortázar or even Borges."—Alli Carlisle, Full Stop

"Neuman is one of the rare writers who can distill the most complex human emotions with apparent effortlessness. . . . Andrés Neuman has transcended the boundaries of geography, time, and language to become one of the most significant writers of the early twenty-first century."—Alex McElroy, Music & Literature

"Each one of these tales is gripping for a multitude of different reasons, but ultimately it's the common bond that they share, the author's instinctive ability to empathize with his flawed subjects, that transforms them into endearing snapshots worthy of their reader's attention."—Aaron Westerman, Typographical Era

". . . Neuman is the rare storyteller who not only understands but also feels how to go about his job."—The Mookse and the Gripes

"Andrés Neuman is destined to be one of the essential writers of our time."—Teju Cole