We are proud to announce that Univers Publishing House founded, starting with November 1st 2009, a sister-company in USA. Univers Publishing Company Ltd will publish and sell on the American market fiction books and will act, at the same time, as a literary agency for European authors and as a provider of editorial services.

Jhumpa Lahiri

THE NAMESAKE

In The Namesake, Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri’s first novel, the characters are always hungry: for a place to call home, for family, for love, and, of course, for food. Ashima, in an arranged marriage to Ashoke Ganguli, misses her native India as she sets up house far from her family in Massachusetts, a land of bleak winters that her family will
never know, much less understand.
Making Bengali food out of American substitutes, she searches desperately for the comfort of her childhood. Time gradually pulls her away from the past, and she learns the ways of America, becomes friends with other transplanted Bengalis, and begins a family. A quiet affection develops between Ashima and Ashoke as they raise their two children, oddly-named Gogol and his sister Sonia. The novel lovingly follows the family through decades of heartache and celebrations.

Richard Russo
NOBODY’S FOOL

Richard Russo hasn’t published very many books, but he is quickly becoming one of the great authors of nowdays. In Nobody’s Fool, he writes another excellent tale of small-town life, a setting he revisits in his masterpiece, Empire Falls. The main character in Nobody’s
Fool is Donald Sullivan, known more commonly as Sully. Sully is something of a free spirit, rarely thinking beyond the moment; now that he’s sixty, he’s feeling the effects of his short-sightedness; he has many friends but few real relationships, even with his son and his off-and-on again lover. Indeed, the closest relationship he has is with his landlady.
Russo is not interested in the standard beginning-middle-end structure of a novel; instead this book is almost pure middle. Plenty happens, but as in real life, few things are neatly resolved.

Elie Wiesel
LA NUIT
(THE NIGHT)

"Through his eyes, we witness the depths of both human cruelty and human grace—and we're left grappling with what remains of Elie, a teenage boy caught between the two. I gain courage from his courage."
Oprah

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s memoir The Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family.His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him
with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in has allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life’s essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It
marks the crucial first step in Wiesel’s lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.

Cees Nootebom
ALERZIELLEN

In „All Souls’Day“ we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely
shaped by history. Berlin provides the backdrop for Daane’s reflections on life as he
plans his latest project - a selffunded film that will show the world through Daane’s eyes.
With a new circle of friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Arthur discusses
everything from history to metaphysics, and the cumulative power of remembered images and philosophical musings on the meaning of our contemporary existence comes to permeate the atmosphere of the book. Then one cold, wintry day, Daane meets the young history student Elik Orange and his world is turned upside down. All Souls’ Day is, finally, an elegiac love story in which the personal histories of the characters are skilfully interwoven with the history of the countries in which they find themselves. It is also the poignant and affecting tale of a man coming to terms with his place in the world.