Faber lands Kingsolver and Díaz

16.04.12 | Charlotte Williams - The Bookseller

Faber has acquired the new novel by The Lacuna-author Barbara Kingsolver, as well as a short story collection by Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz.

Kingsolver’s next novel, Flight Behaviour, was acquired by publishing director Hannah Griffiths, who bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada and open market in Europe, through David Grossman.
Publication is planned for November 2012, with the publisher describing it as Kingsolver’s “most accessible novel to date”.
The Lacuna won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and has shifted just over 201,000 copies for £1.3m in the UK.
Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page said: “Kingsolver is one of the most important writers at work today, and following the huge success of The Lacuna we are delighted to have acquired Flight Behaviour. This novel is absolutely captivating and has everything a reader could wish for.”
Meanwhile, publishing director Julian Loose has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, non-exclusive Europe, in a new collection of short stories, called This is How You Lose Her, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz.

The deal was signed with Nicole Aragi via Arabella Stein at Abner Stein, and the collection, which is a series of linked narratives about love told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, will be published in September 2012. Loose called it a “strong follow-up” to Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

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