Scribner acquires "powerful" French novel from Tuil

Scribner has acquired a novel by French novelist and playwright Karine Tuil called The Age of Reinvention. Editorial director Rowan Cope acquired British Commonwealth rights from Heidi Warneke at Editions Grasset & Fasquelle for Scribner UK. The novel will be published by Peter Borland at Atria Books in the United States. The English translation is by Sam Taylor, translator of HHhH and The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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