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New Vessel Press, founded in New York City in 2012, is an independent publishing house devoted to translated literature and narrative nonfiction. Today, only about three percent of the books available in the American marketplace are translations. In a globalized world, shouldn’t our choice of books be global as well? By bringing readers foreign literature and literary non-fiction as ebooks, we offer wonderful works for a very affordable price, and in a well-designed, aesthetically pleasing format. But of course, what matters most is not where the authors hail from, or what language they write in. The most important thing is the quality of the work itself. And hence our name. We publish great books, just in a new vessel. Reading and speaking foreign languages enriches our lives, offering essential passageways to understand and embrace the world. But corporate mergers are shrinking publishing outlets and English increasingly predominates as the lingua franca. We believe that literary translation is both craft and art, enabling us to traverse borders and open minds. We are committed to books that offer erudition and pleasure, provoke and scintillate, transform and transport. We hope you will join us for our journey. In a fraction of a second, as long as it takes you to download an ebook onto your Kindle, iPad or Nook, you can be on your way toward uncovering personal and artistic mysteries in Argentina (The Missing Years of Juan Salvatierra), listening in on conversations in an literary salon in Vienna during the Age of Enlightenment (Fanny von Arnstein), experiencing a sensual mix of romantic and culinary delights in Israel (Some Day), laughing at the tragicomic misadventures of an Eastern European small town (The Good Life Elsewhere) … You can go wherever these great stories will take you.
Mission: At New Vessel Press, our mission is to publish great books. Yours is to read them. www.newvesselpress.com
SLEEPLESS NIGHT is among Library Journal's Best Books of 2019: "In quiet, unrushed, yet deeply penetrating prose, Dutch author de Moor portrays an unnamed woman during a single night as she recalls her deceased husband and a past shame while engaging with a new lover—all the while baking a cake, her means of coping. An extraordinary accomplishment."
https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=best-world-literature-2019-best-books http://newvesselpress.com/books/sleepless-night/
An evening devoted to "the Polish James Dean," author Marek Hlasko, Tues., Nov. 19, at the The Kosciuszko Foundation in NY: https://www.thekf.org/kf/events/UE/polish-james-dean-marek-hlasko-l/ http://newvesselpress.com/books/killing-the-second-dog/ http://newvesselpress.com/books/backs-turned/
Writing in today's The New York Times, Shaul Bassi quotes from IF VENICE DIES, in which renowned historian Salvatore Settis examines Venice's fragility in the face of mass tourism and rising waters. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/opinion/venice-flood-climate-change.html http://newvesselpress.com/books/if-venice-dies/
As Venice experiences devastating floods—its worst since 1966—Monocle magazine takes a look at IF VENICE DIES by internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis. "An eye-opening read about cities and the causes of their demise." https://monocle.com/minute/2019/11/14/
http://newvesselpress.com/books/if-venice-dies/
In Moment Magazine, Shula Reinharz calls AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR "an outrageously funny, perplexing and perhaps universal story," and finds Jessica Cohen's translation "stunning ... Matalon manages to squeeze into this very brief story several of Israeli society’s easily recognized blemishes: conspicuous consumption run amok, out-of-control weddings (this one includes 500 guests), marital and in-law relations and more." https://momentmag.com/book-review-a-writer-who-opened-doors/
How tragic that we recently lost one of Israel’s great writers—Ronit Matalon—who died at the young age of 58.
"The mystery ... seems to deepen with every clue. SLEEPLESS NIGHT is a novel for the floating world we live in now, a novel that ends endings, happy or otherwise."
—Lisa Zeiger on Woven Tale Press
https://www.thewoventalepress.net/2019/11/08/a-novel-as-riddle/
WTP guest writer Lisa Zeiger reviews SLEEPLESS NIGHT By Margriet de Moor, "a novel for the floating world we live in now."
At Strand Book Store last night, translator Jessica Cohen, novelist Bethany Ball and Columbia University professor Gil Hochberg stressed the poignant, deep mystery of AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR, the final work by Israeli author Ronit Matalon about a woman who sows chaos by refusing to appear on her wedding day. http://newvesselpress.com/books/and-the-bride-closed-the-door/
CrimeReads recommends THE BISHOP'S BEDROOM: "Just as sultry and transgressive as the title suggests. Set in 1946 ... follows two men who unite for erotic adventures, only to have their partnership interrupted by unexpected tragedy. This moody psychological work, half mystery and half meditation, should please fans of Patricia Highsmith." https://crimereads.com/5-international-crime-novels-to-read-this-november/
Every month, like customs agents with a penchant for literature, we’re scouring the latest imports to these shores looking for the best crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers. Whether you’re a devo…
Booker Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen, novelist Bethany Ball and Columbia University literature professor Gil Hochberg discuss AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR at the Strand Book Store tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
https://www.strandbooks.com/event/and-the-bride-closed
The Sopranos star Edoardo Ballerini narrates THE BISHOP'S BEDROOM. The Italian-American actor, named a Golden Voice for lifetime achievement as an audiobook narrator, is the ideal choice for this sultry, stylish psychological thriller set on Largo Maggiore in northern Italy.
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781974984916-the-bishop-s-bedroom
The 2019 National Translation Award in Prose goes to WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT. Congratulations to Karen Emmerich, whose translation of this spectacular Greek novel by Ersi Sotiropoulos was praised by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for its "sinuous sentences" portraying poet C.P. Cavafy. "Moving seamlessly from description to thought to assessment of the poems he’s working on ... the prose becomes as luxurious and welcoming as Cavafy’s own poetry."
https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2019-national-translation-award-in-prose-whats-left-of-the-night/
http://newvesselpress.com/books/whats-left-night/
Asymptote names AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR its October Book Selection. "One could tout the graces of Matalon’s novella on a number of fronts. Its layered brand of humor—part slapstick, part wit—seeps in and out of darkness with bite, yielding a compact tragicomedy on love and loss ... Its prose, translated by Man Booker Prize winner Jessica Cohen, is a deftly wielded knife." https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2019/11/07/announcing-our-october-book-club-selection-and-the-bride-closed-the-door-by-ronit-matalon/?fbclid=IwAR2cCTOMDvLHNhqGndMzdQ8mOQdnfhERDSH1OJPEXRK6kDSUEezVAer6BXo
Read an excerpt from THE BISHOP'S BEDROOM on CrimeReads: https://crimereads.com/excerpt-the-bishops-bedroom/ "The sexual tension crackles ... The suspense is as palpable as the unmistakable echoes of Patricia Highsmith."—Booklist
For five days I resisted the temptation to return to Oggebbio, where it seemed I’d scented one of the lake’s many hidden mysteries. But one afternoon, while I was on my way back to my home port, I …
AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR reviewed by Rachel Kadish in The New York Times: “Matalon’s virtuosic novel opens in a standoff: A bride has barricaded herself in a room on her wedding day and will neither emerge nor explain ... The lightness of Matalon’s tale belies its heft. In prose that is both abrupt and tender, she skewers the hydraulics of family and the insensitivities of those who think themselves exquisitely sensitive ... Matalon ... indicts us all."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/books/review/and-the-bride-closed-the-door-ronit-matalon.html
Here's why WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT has been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose: "Takes us into three days and nights of Cavafy’s European tour in June 1897 ... Moving seamlessly from description to thought to assessment of the poems he’s working on, the story allows us to live, briefly, in this history; in Karen Emmerich's translation, the prose becomes as luxurious and welcoming as Cavafy’s own poetry."
https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2019/11/05/the-nta-countdown-to-alta42-whats-left-of-the-night/
Join us as we count down to ALTA42: Sight and Sound with the National Translation Award in Poetry and Prose long- and shortlisted titles! We will be featuring the titles in alphabetical order along…
The Madeleine Project is a staff choice at Book Culture in New York City. Stop by one of their stores for your copy of this audacious act of journalism, driven by intense curiosity and humane tenderness, that introduces the world to an unsung 20th century figure. http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-madeleine-project/
THE BISHOP'S BEDROOM is BOOK OF THE MONTH at Foyles Bookshop in London. "A beautiful evocation of the dolce vita ... and an unnerving portrayal of the predatory sexual mores of another world that mirrors those of our own in the strangest, most unexpected ways."―James Lasdun, author of The Fall Guy http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-bishops-bedroom/
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Félix Vallotton, whose sensual painting is at the center of the page-turning art forgery novel THE LAST WEYNFELDT by Martin Suter, gets a major retrospective opening today at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/…/felix-vallotton-painter-disquiet
http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-last-weynfeldt/
The Italian art historian and author of IF VENICE DIES,
Salvatore Settis, will co-curate an exhibition of one of the world's most precious art troves, the Torlonia Collection of ancient classical sculpture. Settis played a key role in negotiating the display of the treasures, long shrouded in mystery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/arts/design/torlonia-collection-rome-statues.html?searchResultPosition=1
The Torlonia family assembled one of the world’s most important private collections of statuary. It will go on display in Rome in March, a prelude to a grand tour.
EXPOSED by Jean-philippe Blondel is on Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2019 list. "This irresistible novel flies by with gentle humor, but also poses complex questions about the meaning of art and sexuality." https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2019/fiction?fbclid=IwAR05V-AG9dwoP6uOvyVo5Q73_bFJwtax4MfQzuZLzzFh45CSn5_Rewj5iac#book/book-6
The Afro-Italian author of ADUA, Igiaba Scego, talks with the BBC
about being black in Italy. Her novel tells of a young immigrant woman's dream of freedom in today's Rome and the bittersweet legacies of her past. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07rtyp4 http://newvesselpress.com/books/adua/
Meet the black Italians fighting to claim their place in a nation that’s still very white
Public Books calls NEAPOLITAN CHRONICLES by Anna Maria Ortese "a masterpiece ... Conveying the intricacies of Ortese’s style presents a challenge to the translator ... But, happily, Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee are the ones to tackle her knotty prose. Together, they crafted an English translation whose language is easy to read, while still strikingly strange."
https://www.publicbooks.org/out-of-the-drawing-room-italian-women-writers-in-translation/
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"Matalon nails how families relate to each other. Her scenes are cinematic and evocative ... A masterful rendering of a failed wedding day and the embedded failures that individuals, a family, and a culture accrue in the process of trying to manage their circumstances. As complex and chaotic as life."―Foreword Reviews Book of the Day + Starred Review.
https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/and-the-bride-closed-the-door/
Marriage can be explosive, but The Jerusalem Post calls the Israeli novel about wedding day mayhem, AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR by Ronit Matalon, "delightful."
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Book-review-On-the-other-side-of-the-door-603485?fbclid=IwAR0dPGWDW4QRy_e759vfn5K8AfkNb6A-pRYmgyTBTiw5Anom3CGitGi8J6U
Riding a wedding day ROLLER-coaster crisis
Curious about Vigdis Hjorth, the Norwegian author nominated for this year's National Book Award? "She has become the biggest Scandinavian literary story of the past twenty years, except for maybe Karl Ove Knausgaard, with whose work hers has been compared," writes The New Yorker. You'll find unexpected stories by both Hjorth and Knausgaard in A VERY SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS: http://newvesselpress.com/books/a-very-scandinavian-christmas/
Today is publication day for AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR, translated by Man Booker International Prize winner Jessica Cohen. "Ronit Matalon was a giant of Israeli literature: not of the bombast of grand political statements, but rather a master of the private, the intimate, the ambivalent, the human. AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR ... is funny, moving and deeply real."―Dara Horn, author of Eternal Life
http://newvesselpress.com/books/and-the-bride-closed-the-door/
WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT by Ersi Sotiropoulos in Karen Emmerich's stellar translation has been shortlisted for the 2019 National Translation Award in Prose from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). "A perfect book," is what Edmund White calls this spellbinding novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy. https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/announcing-the-2019-national-translation-awards-in-poetry-and-prose-shortlists/ http://newvesselpress.com/books/whats-left-night/
"Sexual tension crackles" in THE BISHOP'S BEDROOM, enthuses Booklist. "Happily, this hypnotic novel, a mix of thriller and mood piece on the nature of sexual attraction, has finally been translated into English ... The suspense is as palpable as the unmistakable echoes of Patricia Highsmith."
http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-bishops-bedroom/
Celebrate Banned Books Week with COCAINE by Pitigrilli. The novel's descriptions of sex and drug use prompted Vatican authorities to place it on a list of forbidden books. "A brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and Dawn Powell's The Wicked Pavilion."—Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City http://newvesselpress.com/books/cocaine/
Anyone with doubts about the future of literary culture and publishing should attend the Brooklyn Book Festival. Yesterday's 2019 event was marked by record sales and fantastic encounters with Afro-Italian author Igiaba Scego and readers ever avid for good books.
Come visit us at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We’re in booth 613 next to Borough Hall. Igiaba Scego author of ADUA will be signing copies and in conversation with Amitav Ghosh at 5 p.m. http://newvesselpress.com/books/adua/
Join New Vessel Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival tomorrow, Sunday, September 22. All our books will be on sale at Booth 613, next to Brooklyn Borough Hall, including signed copies of ADUA by Igiaba Scego. http://newvesselpress.com/books/adua/
Today is publication day for our fourth book in the very popular Very Christmas series—A VERY SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS. A literary smorgasbord ranging from Karl Ove Knausgaard to Hans Christian Andersen to National Book Award nominee Vigdis Hjorth. The perfect complement to the earlier books in this series: A VERY FRENCH CHRISTMAS, A VERY RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS and A VERY ITALIAN CHRISTMAS. http://newvesselpress.com/books/a-very-scandinavian-christmas/
KILLING AUNTIE is a short comedic masterpiece that combines elements of Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kafka, and Heller. “Deliciously wicked … readers will also find plenty to enjoy (one sequence of unwitting cannibalism is particularly memorable).”— Publishers Weekly
http://newvesselpress.com/books/killing-auntie/
Join New Vessel Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival next Sunday, Sept. 22, from 10-6 p.m. We'll be in Booth 613 next to Borough Hall. Come by for signed copies of ADUA by Igiaba Scego who will be speaking with author Amitav Ghosh at 5 p.m. https://brooklynbookfestival.org/events/the-movement-of-people-modern-nomads-and-migrants/ http://newvesselpress.com/books/adua/
AND THE BRIDE CLOSED THE DOOR, the provocative and entertaining novel about wedding day madness by Israeli author Ronit Matalon, is featured in The Jewish Week's Fall Arts Guide. "Funny, moving and deeply real," says Dara Horn, author of Eternal Life. https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/fall-arts-books-2019/
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Alison Anderson's deft translation is bringing the French novel EXPOSED by Jean-philippe Blondel to English-speaking readers in Kansas and beyond. Skype enabled Blondel to appear from his home in Troyes, France last week with the Translation Book Club at Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita. http://newvesselpress.com/books/exposed/
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"A beautiful, mysterious and shocking book." Celebrated Dutch author Margriet de Moor talks about SLEEPLESS NIGHT and why she wrote what Books and Bao calls "this affecting story [that] leaves us with, upon its closure, the nervous unease that life doesn’t care about us."
The celebrated author of WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT, Ersi Sotiropoulos, explains how her novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy deals with forbidden desires and asks: "Where does art come from?" http://newvesselpress.com/books/whats-left-night/
Today is publication day for WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT: a spellbinding novel based on the visit to Paris by C.P. Cavafy, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, filled with lyrical observations and infused with erotic desire. "A perfect book."—Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and The Unpunished Vice https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=what%27s+left+of+the+night+ https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Left-Night-Ersi-Sotiropoulos/dp/1939931614
Take a ride on a bestseller: THE 6:41 TO PARIS. "A strong plot and a touching portrayal of how any of us might feel when unexpectedly confronted by the detritus of young love ... THE 6:41 TO PARIS is a timely reminder that the past is always waiting to ambush us." —The New York Times https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781939931269 https://www.amazon.com/6-41-Paris-Jean-Philippe-Blondel/dp/1939931266
Hankering for Paris along with the wisdom of the ages? Open up The Madeleine Project and be transported to a magical time capsule in the French capital. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781939931498 https://www.amazon.com/Madeleine-Project-Clara-Beaudoux/dp/1939931495
Have you read The Madeleine Project yet? This time of year, a lot of people clean out their closets, attics, and storage room. This book will give you pause before throwing away an old photo album, your grandmother's diary, or a wedding present that has gone unopened for fifty years. The Madeleine Project is the incredible story of a French woman who lives through the entire European 20th century, and whose story is only remembered thanks to her stuff (and somebody finding it!). http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-madeleine-project/
Salvatore Settis, head of the Musée du Louvre's scientific advisory council, tells BBC News that his book IF VENICE DIES sounds the alarm not just about the Queen of the Adriatic but about the perilous fate of historic cities around the globe. http://newvesselpress.com/books/if-venice-dies/
Some video of the evening...
Watch Alexis Ragougneau, author of THE MADONNA OF NOTRE DAME, discuss the paradoxes of Notre Dame Cathedral, which in Ragougneau's telling is simultaneously a Catholic fortress and a Tower of Babel.
What in the world does THE 6:41 TO PARIS have to do with a Polish postal worker in Troyes, France? Author Jean-Philippe Blondel explains ...
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren reads from his Alexandrian Trilogy.
What is THE 6:41 TO PARIS about? We asked author Jean-Philippe Blondel to give us an idea. Pub date is less than two months away!
Check out the book trailer for SOME DAY by Shemi Zarhin, a novel that's been called "splendidly realized," "steamy," "rich and distinctive," and lots more. "With Some Day," writes The Arts Fuse, "Zarhin has added his name to the luminaries of Israeli literature.”
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