Arnon Grunberg's Tirza is finally out in English this week, from Open Letter; as longtime readers know I'm a big fan and have been touting this since I read it in 2009: it was, as I've noted, the best book I read that year.
I'm sorry I missed the launch event at 192 Books -- and also a bit disappointed by the lack of attention and fuss about it so far. Publishers Weekly finally got around to reviewing it (and, yes, the review is starred), and Kirkus did too, but come on, folks -- bloggers ! publications large and small ! come on ! get on it !
In the hope of helping things along a bit, I read at the Zoekmachine Marketing Blog that the Dutch book trailer for Tirza was the first of its kind (well, in Belgium, they say ...) -- and while I don't really get the whole book trailer thing, here you go (and, hey, parts are in English -- maybe Open Letter will bring out a version with the rest dubbed ...):
I'm sorry I missed the launch event at 192 Books -- and also a bit disappointed by the lack of attention and fuss about it so far. Publishers Weekly finally got around to reviewing it (and, yes, the review is starred), and Kirkus did too, but come on, folks -- bloggers ! publications large and small ! come on ! get on it !
In the hope of helping things along a bit, I read at the Zoekmachine Marketing Blog that the Dutch book trailer for Tirza was the first of its kind (well, in Belgium, they say ...) -- and while I don't really get the whole book trailer thing, here you go (and, hey, parts are in English -- maybe Open Letter will bring out a version with the rest dubbed ...):