Constable buys Canadian epic
At 1,354 pages, Hunger’s Brides may be the longest single-volume work of fiction since Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy. It tells the story of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet, and of a present-day scholar obsessed with her work.
Becky Hardie
at Constable & Robinson bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Random House Canada, which has published Hunger’s Brides to acclaim. The novel will also be published by Carroll & Graf in the US, Pendo Verlag in Germany and Rubikon in Serbia.
Constable will publish in September, when Paul Anderson will visit the UK, promoting the novel with the aid of a multi-media presentation.
Becky Hardie
Constable will publish in September, when Paul Anderson will visit the UK, promoting the novel with the aid of a multi-media presentation.
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