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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
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THE DRIVE is named one of the Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed by Literary Hub. "A superb debut from one of Israel’s younger prize-winning authors," Yair Assulin and translated by Jessica Cohen. "Really the cream of a much bigger crop" !
https://lithub.com/the-best-books-of-2020-you-might-have-missed/
Pierre Cardin, the fashion giant who died today at age 98, earned criticism for licensing his name to hundreds of mass-market products. His thankfully failed promotion of this monstrous skyscraper for Venice, near where he was born, is recounted in IF VENICE DIES, a passionate plea by eminent art historian Salvatore Settis against the ruination of historic cities.
https://newvesselpress.com/books/if-venice-dies/
THE PIANO STUDENT—a novel with a soundtrack—explores maestro Vladimir Horowitz's hidden gay romance with a musician of "brilliant mediocrity" as Europe hurtled towards war in the 1930s. "A chronicle of a moving love story ... does lift the lid on the otherwise staid portrayal in popular perception of the world of classical music ... One is tempted often to look up the music peppered throughout the book."—The Hindu Business Line
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/lea-singers-new-novel-is-based-on-the-love-affair-between-pianists-horowitz-and-kaufmann/article33443798.ece
Author Lea Singer uses unpublished letters to draw out a secret relationship between Vladimir Horowitz, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, and his student, the Swiss pianist and composer Nico Kaufmann, in a book populated with delightful pieces of music
Xmas Eve popup in NYC on Broadway and West 75th Street. #rebookingmanhattan
The New York Times features UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev in its Globetrotting Preview of 2021 books from around the world. "Turn off your television sets and get reading. Sergei Lebedev writes not of the past, but of today."
—Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/23/books/new-books-international.html
Audiobooks make perfect last-minute gifts and THE 6:41 TO PARIS by Jean-Philippe Blondel is available on Libro.fm which partners with independent bookstores like NYC's Book Club. A psychological thriller about past romance, with all its pain and promise and the listener gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts.
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781662023026-the-6-41-to-paris
Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occ...
Have a very literary Christmas with our gorgeous holiday story anthologies. A VERY GERMAN CHRISTMAS, excerpted in this month's Harper's Magazine, is available along with other volumes in the series at Book Culture in NYC and an indie bookstore near you.
https://www.bookculture.com/book/9781939931887
WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT by Έρση Σωτηροπούλου / Ersi Sotiropoulos, a song of praise to the poet C.P. Cavafy. "The book is gorgeous ... offers a unique and deeply participatory entrée into the shadowed corners and sunlit uplands of a unique individual's life." Translated by Karen Emmerich and winner of the National Translation Award.
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/
A Starred Review from Kirkus Reviews of UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev: "Probing the ... horrors that science casually inflicts on people, animals, and the environment. Though Putin is never mentioned, his malevolent presence is felt throughout. A darkly absorbing intellectual thriller by one of Russia's boldest young novelists."
https://www.edelweiss.plus/?sku=1939931908&g=4400
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is so excited about UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev that senior fellow Judy Dempsey chooses it as one of the best books of 2020, though it won't be out until February. "I’m biased! My favorite Russian author is Sergei Lebedev ... This book is about 'the Island,' a closed-off location where 'Neophyte,' a secretive, chemical substance that its scientists hoped was undetectable, was developed."
https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/12/17/best-books-of-2020-as-chosen-by-carnegie-scholars-pub-83483
Judy Dempsey at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is so excited about UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev that she named it one of the best books of 2020 and it's not even out yet. "I’m biased! My favorite Russian author is Sergei Lebedev ... It’s about the Kremlin’s use of chemical weapons against its opponents."
https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/12/17/best-books-of-2020-as-chosen-by-carnegie-scholars-pub-83483UN
THE 6:41 TO PARIS is a "quick-bite of a thriller" that Early Bird Books recommends to fans of HBO's The Undoing. The fast-paced novel involves two ex-lovers who meet on a train decades after a passionate affair ended badly. "Should they speak? If so, what on earth do they say to one another? This is one for readers who love tales of candid romantic strife," it says, adding that a film version of THE 6:41 TO PARIS could also star Nicole Kidman.
https://earlybirdbooks.com/thriller-books-like-the-undoing?utm_source=IgnitionContentNotification
"Gripping in its newness and historical import ... THE PIANO STUDENT contains a lovely air of mystery," says Washington Independent Review of Books of this "nuanced" novel about Vladimir Horowitz's taboo affair in which "members of music’s royalty people the pages."
http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-piano-student-a-novel
The Russian paper Novye Izvestia marvels that Sergei Lebedev's bold new novel about the state's use of poison in assassination attempts under Putin and other leaders is "written with such artistic depth and subtlety ... artistry in the full meaning of the word." After the recent chemical attack on opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the paper notes "the public had many questions … Lebedev had a question that is natural for a writer: What kind of person does that?... Literature has always asked about the nature of evil."
https://en.newizv.ru/news/culture/11-12-2020/the-creator-of-death-a-new-novel-by-the-most-popular-russian-writer-in-europe-released
"Intensely satisfying ... A haunting and at times heartbreaking read." Never Imitate Blog reviews THE PIANO STUDENT about Vladimir Horowitz's passionate covert affair with a younger male pianist in the 1930s.
https://neverimitate.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/book-review-the-piano-student/
“Criminality and remorselessness are not prerequisites for making art, but sometimes art is created by the criminal and remorseless” The Piano Student, by Lea Singer (translated by Elis…
"The decision to learn a foreign language is to me an act of friendship. It is indeed a holding out of the hand. It’s not just a route to negotiation. It’s also to get to know you better, to draw closer to you and your culture, your social manners and your way of thinking. And the decision to teach a foreign language is an act of commitment, generosity and mediation."—John le Carré
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/02/why-we-should-learn-german-john-le-carre
To help make the European debate decent and civilised, it is now more important than ever to value the skills of the linguist
We're taking our books to the streets! Come visit the New Vessel Press popup today on NYC's Upper West Side, Broadway at 107th Street near Absolute Bagels, with all our Christmas anthologies and novels and nonfiction from around the world. #rebookingmanhattan
Have a very literary Christmas with these beautiful anthologies of contemporary and classic tales from France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. At Shakespeare and Company in NYC and an independent bookseller near you. https://shop.shakeandco.com/book/9781939931887
THE DRIVE by Yair Assulin has "the sort of soul-level struggling that makes great fiction possible," says The Jewish Exponent. "The translator, Jessica Cohen, is responsible for translations of Israeli literary giants with fans in America like David Grossman, Amos Oz and Etgar Keret, and one can only hope that her name on Assulin’s work means that we’ll be seeing more from him on our shelves soon."
https://www.jewishexponent.com/2020/12/10/overlooked-other-books-to-consider/
Holiday pop-up shop today in NYC on Broadway and West 107th, with all five of our Christmas anthologies. https://newvesselpress.com/books/a-very-german-christmas/
"The illicit love affair of world-famous piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz and the less successful pianist Nico Kaufmann is recreated vividly in Lea Singer’s THE PIANO STUDENT ... Singer has written a compelling story, interweaving history, music, and psychological intrigues that accompany purposely hidden romantic involvements."—Gay & Lesbian Review-Worldwide
https://glreview.org/article/horowitz-off-the-ivories/
"UNTRACEABLE is an ambitious work, one which goes far beyond the spy thriller."—Artmuselondon on Sergei Lebedev's new novel, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.
The horrendous poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury city centre on the 4th March 2018 was the inspiration for Sergei Lebedev’s latest novel Untraceable, set in the opaque wo…
Starred Review for UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev, the novel that takes on Putin and the ultimate poison, in another stellar translation by Antonina W. Bouis. "Intense from start to finish ... Untraceable explores recent Russian history through the perspectives of its central characters, who embody the worst of the Soviet Union’s obsessions and excesses ... Intelligent and stunning, Untraceable is a character-driven thriller about the price of control."—Foreword Reviews
I Belong to Vienna by Anna Goldenberg in Alta L. Price's translation is on Run for Cover Bookstore's Best Books of 2020 list!
Before anyone attacks me let me just say this: choosing the “best of” each year is excruciating! It is as if you were asking me to choose between my children (Lucia and Etienne I love you both equally!). This list is made of the books that in 2020 moved me, made me think, laugh, cry or all of the above, transported me somewhere or in time and basically are the books I really would love for everyone to read. I expanded the Adult fiction and non-fiction selection to 20 books (and trust me I had at least double that on my little scratch papers!). I hope this list inspires you. Remember to shop with an indie bookstore today and always. Thank you! And I could not tag more than 20 people apparently so here are more authors and publishers to tag: @souvankhamthammavongsa @lailawrites @new_vessel_press @sierracmurdoch @allendeisabel @sydneyunfiltered @vintageanchorbooks
A Hermann Hesse short story, never before published in English, is among unexpected treats in A VERY GERMAN CHRISTMAS. The Nobel laureate and author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha tells of returning unwanted holiday presents like a fountain pen and gloves before adopting a decidedly mystical tone to muse over the gift of an exotic butterfly with allegorical meaning.
https://newvesselpress.com/books/a-very-german-christmas/
"Adrien Goetz’s VILLA OF DELIRIUM is not merely a historical novel, it’s a novel about history. Belle Époque France, Ancient Greece, the two World Wars and the Holocaust: each provides the author his narrative setting but also the ideas he reckons with .... Exhilarating ... It's a remarkable feat of storytelling."—Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/villa-of-delirium-by-adrien-goetz
Not merely a historical novel, this is an epic novel of Greek history.
Preeminent translator from Italian Michael Moore discusses THE ANIMAL GAZER and more in an interview with Trafika Europe radio, which features a reading of a fascinating chapter from the novel by Edgardo Franzosini. Listen here: https://www.trafikaeurope.org/podcast/bowery-poetry-speaks/?c=72e1ba2726d6 https://newvesselpress.com/books/the-animal-gazer/
Today Sun 29 Nov 2020 3pm in NY=8pm in London=9pm in Milan - preeminent translator from Italian Michael F Moore discusses The Animal Gazer and more - and we enjoy a generous chapter from this novel! To listen: https://trafikaeurope.org/go/radio (51-minute audio).
If you miss this great talk in the livestream, check back in a few days and enjoy it in the Bowery Poetry Speaks audio archive!
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The Very Christmas collection of holiday stories is recommended by KMFA Classical 89.5 radio in Austin, Texas. "It's Christmas Around the World with these beautiful hard-bound volumes from New Vessel Press showcasing stories from a particular country or region by many well-known authors." Available at Malvern Books and other independent bookstores.
https://www.kmfa.org/pages/3529-kmfa-favorite-things-gift-guide?fbclid=IwAR0wA0nXdAj8KW50lOkPBqCHB_7cEAjAenn3oOTgubvYju1CN5GWVhKauXo
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We love—and proudly stock!—these New Vessel Press Christmas collections showcasing stories from a particular country or region. They're beautiful hardbound books and make perfect festive gifts!
A Joseph Roth short story published in English for the first time in A VERY GERMAN CHRISTMAS appears in the December issue of Harper's Magazine and features on its cover. "Christmas in Cochinchina," published in German in 1929, deals with a visit to a dioramic waxworks display by a schoolboy somewhere in the vast Austro-Hungarian empire.
https://newvesselpress.com/books/a-very-german-christmas/
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/12/christmas-in-cochinchina/
Elena Ferrante recommends NEAPOLITAN CHRONICLES by Anna Maria Ortese. "Ferrante has cited Ortese as one of her greatest influences, and the connections are obvious in this collection of short stories and essays.” —The New Yorker https://bookshop.org/lists/elena-ferrante-s-recommended-reading-ab23a010-a51f-4328-a4a8-746246136cd4
Stories of women told by women: Elena Ferrante, the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, recommends 40 twentieth-century female writers.
UNTRACEABLE by Sergei Lebedev is a timely work whose "literary approach" offers an enjoyable change of pace from boilerplate thrillers, says Publishers Weekly. "The Russian government’s poisoning of political enemies provides the backdrop for this timely thriller ... Assured prose is a plus."
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-939931-90-0
Trafika Europe
Up next in our European Literature Days 2020 - New York festival online, Austrian author Anna Goldenberg and translator Alta L. Price discuss the novel, I Belong to Vienna. Why would you return to a city that tried to murder you? Here is the story of one Jewish family that did. I Belong to Vienna is a defiant memoir from contemporary Europe and a probing tale of heroism, resilience, identity and belonging.
This episode will become available on 19 Nov 2020 from 2pm in NY = 7pm in London = 8pm in Vienna
To listen: trafikaeurope.org/podcast/european-literature-days/
This episode, courtesy of Austrian Cultural Forum New York is so good you'll want to hear it again!
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The European Literature Days festival includes a discussion of I Belong to Vienna with author Anna Goldenberg and her translator Alta L. Price about this probing tale of heroism, identity and belonging. Listen in on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. EST on Trafika Europe Radio, and sponsored by Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
https://www.trafikaeurope.org/podcast/european-literature-days/?c=72e1ba2726d6
A Joseph Roth short story published in English for the first time in A VERY GERMAN CHRISTMAS appears in the December issue of Harper's Magazine and features on its cover. "Christmas in Cochinchina," published in German in 1929, deals with a visit to a dioramic waxworks display by a schoolboy somewhere in the vast Austro-Hungarian empire.
https://newvesselpress.com/books/a-very-german-christmas/
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/12/christmas-in-cochinchina/
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Sample the pleasures of VILLA OF DELIRIUM as Natasha Lehrer reads from her translation of the novel by Adrien Goetz, originally written in French. This a sweeping tale about an illustrious family that builds itself a fabulous Riviera retreat—a replica of an ancient Greek palace in which they seek perfection and beauty until being caught up in the tragedies of 20th century European history. https://newvesselpress.com/books/villa-of-delirium/
Designer Ashley Hicks gives a video tour of the Villa Kérylos, the fanciful French Riviera mansion that is the setting for VILLA OF DELIRIUM by Adrien Goetz The novel, said to rival Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, is a sweeping tale about an illustrious family that builds itself a fabulous retreat on the Côte d'Azur—a replica of an ancient Greek palace in which they seek perfection and beauty until being caught up in the tragedies of 20th century European history. https://newvesselpress.com/books/villa-of-delirium/
The overture to Mozart's Magic Flute plays in the Vienna State Opera House where a music-loving Jewish teenager is surrounded by Nazis. Watch the trailer for I BELONG TO VIENNA by Anna Goldenberg.
THE DRIVE by Yair Assulin is a powerfully subversive novel in a long tradition of anti-militarist literature, with existentialist echoes of Céline's Journey to the End of the Night, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk. Watch the video where novelist Ruby Namdar lays it out in an engrossing discussion with Assulin and his Booker Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen.
Israeli author Yair Assulin explains the acute relevance of his new novel THE DRIVE in these times of radical uncertainty. http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-drive/
Video message on surviving these days of isolation with New Vessel Press.
A message of hope from Troyes in France, where Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the critically acclaimed novels EXPOSED and THE 6:41 TO PARIS, talks about the pleasures of reading and looks ahead to the future. http://newvesselpress.com/books/exposed/
To celebrate Dutch literature in English, renowned author Margriet de Moor talks about her enigmatic novel SLEEPLESS NIGHT, a story of romance and death punctuated by a midnight cake baking ritual. #Boekenweek http://newvesselpress.com/books/sleepless-night/
"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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