7 Şubat 2014 Cuma

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak : I KISS YOUR HANDS MANY TIMES

Sizlere Jill Grinberg Literary Management'ın temsil etmeye başladığı, yeni bir müşterisini bildirmekten memnunum. Yazarımızın adı Marianne Szegedy-Maszak .Kendisi, geçen yılın Ağustos ayında Spiegel & Grau tarafından yayınlanan, ve eleştirmenlerce çok beğenilen I KISS YOUR HANDS MANY TIMES'in yazarı. Eser şimdiye dek Macaristan ve Rusya'da satıldı. İşte bazı bilgilerin yanı sıra aldığı yorumları sizle paylaşmaktan memnunum. 

İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında geçen büyüleyici bir aşk hikayesi. Yazarın ebeveynlerini bir araya getiren ve onları birbirinden ayrı düşüren güçler hakkında yazılmış, sürükleyici bir roman.



Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’ın ebeveynleri, Hanna  ve Aladár,  Budapeste'de 1940 yılında tanışırlar ve birbirlerine görür görmez aşık olurlar. O zamanlar babası dışişleri bakanlığının yükselen yıldızıdır—Dachau'daki toplama kampına tutklanıp, yollanırken, hararetli bir anti-Faşist olarak  Müttefik güçlerle görüşmeler halindedir. Annesi ünlü fabrikatör, aristokrat bir Yahudi ailenin sanayici patriği, fabrika sahibi, aydınların ve sanatçıların destekçisi,  kentin ileri gelenlerini heybetli malikanelerinde ağırlayan Manfred Weiss'ın torunudur. Almanlar 1944'te Macaristan'ı işgal ettiklerinde, ailedeki pek çok kimse on yıllarca önce Katolik inancını benimsemiş olmasına rağmen yine de saklanmaya zorlandılar.Heinrich Himmler ile gizli ve tartışmalı bir anlaşma karşılığında hayatta kalmalarının bedeli olarak tüm mal varlıklarını karşılığında Portekiz'e güvenli bir yolculuk yaptılar.


Aladar, Dachau toplama kampından sağ kurtuldu, ancak bu onun için endişeli ve dehşet dolu krılgan bir süreçti. İki yıl boyunca kimseyle temas kurmadan kaldığı bu kamptan çıktıktan sonra ilk işi Hanna'yı aramak oldu. Nihayet onun yerini bulabildi. Ve ona son ayrıldıkları aynı adam olmadığını ancak onu hala sevdiğini söyleyen bir mektup yazdı. Hanna ise bu mektup üzerine aylar boyunca vize ve geçiş izni bekleyerek, 1945 Aralığında Budapeşteye gitti ve orada evlendiler.


1940-1947 yılları arasındaki mektuplaşmalardan oluşan bu eser, Szegedy-Maszak'ın öyküsünü, bir zamanlar samimi ve destansı olsa da şanlı hümanizmleriyle  kendi tarihlerini anti semitizmden ayıran, Macaristan'ın kendi Yahudi nüfüsuyla karmaşık ilişkisini ve bu ilişkiden etkilenen ailesinin öyküsünü anlatır- 

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A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author’s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart

Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding. In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal.

Aladár survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself. After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she’d last seen, but he was still in love with her. After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed.

Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy-Maszák’s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population—the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti-Semitism—and with the rest of the world. She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted—from a country and its individuals.

MAcmillan Çocuk Yayın Gurubu ALA Midwinter!

 Macmillan Çocuk Yayın Grubunun ALA Midwinter'da açıklanan tüm Ödül Sahibi eserlerini sizlerle paylaşmaktan heyecanlıyız! Tebrikler!


Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: When the Beat was Born  
Theodore Taylor III illustrator of WHEN THE BEAT WAS BORN: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill
Roaring Brook Press: August 2013; 9 ¾ x 9 ¾; 32 pages; Ages 6 to 10

  "Taylor's delicate linework is swept with streaks of earthy browns and muted greens and reds, suggesting swirls and blasts of sound bombarding the old school crowds." – BCCB




Pura Belpre Illustrator Award

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Nino Wrestles the WorldNINO WRESTLES THE WORLD by Yuyi Morales
 Roaring Brook Press: June 2013; 9 x 9; 36 pages; Ages 4 to 8

 Señoras y Señores, put your hands together for the fantastic, spectacular, one of a kind…Niño!
           



Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor
Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Mad Potter
 THE MAD POTTER: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
 Roaring Brook Press: October 2013; 8 ½ x 10; 56 pages; Ages 7 to 11

When George Ohr's trove of pottery was discovered in 1967, years after his death, his true genius was discovered with it. 
           



YALSA Alex Award Winner & YALSA Great Graphic Novels List

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Relish RELISH: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
First Second: Trade Paperback: April 2013; 6 x 8 ½;176 pages

"Just about everything in this rambling memoir is handled with good cheer, which hints at the positive energy and personal fulfillment Knisley has wrought from her young life in food."—
Booklist
           
Foreign sales:
§  French/Editions Delcourte
§  German/Eden Books
§  Italian/Rizzoli Lizard
§  Spanish (World)/Ediciones Salamandra

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Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction – Winner

BO AT BALLARD CREEK by Kirkpatrick Hill; illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers: June 2013; 5 1/2 x 8 ¼; 288 pages; Ages 8 to 12; B&W illustrations throughout

Foreign sales:
·         Japanese/Kodansha



Orbis Pictus Recommended Title

WHO SAYS WOMEN CAN’T BE DOCTORS: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell  by Tanya Lee Stone; illustrations by Marjorie Priceman
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers: February 2013: 8 ½ x 11; 40 pages; Ages 5 to 8

The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award  was established in 1989 for promoting and recognizing excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children. The name Orbis Pictus, commemorates the work of Johannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Pictus—The World in Pictures (1657), considered to be the first book actually planned for children.

Foreign sales:
·         Chinese complex/Taiwan Mac Educational Co.
·         Chinese simplified/Beijing Cheerful Century Co.


2014 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book

THE BOY WHO LOVED MATH: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Roaring Brook Press: June 2013; 8 x 10; 44 pages; Ages 3 to 8

The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award  was established in 1989 for promoting and recognizing excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children. The name Orbis Pictus, commemorates the work of Johannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Pictus—The World in Pictures (1657), considered to be the first book actually planned for children.

Foreign sales:
·         Hungarian/Naphegy Kiado
·         Korean/Bomnamu Publishers
·         Russian/Kariera Press


YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults List

FREAKBOY by Kristin Elizabeth Clark—Top Ten Title!
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers: October 2013; 5 1/2 x 8 ¼; 448 pages; Ages 12 to 18
YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Committee presents fiction titles published for young adults in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for ages 12 to 18. The purpose of the annual list it to provide librarians and library workers with a resource to use for collection development and reader’s advisory purposes.



YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers List
The Quick Picks list, presented annually aft the ALA Midwinter Meeting suggests books that teens, ages 12-18, will pick up on their own and read for pleasure; it is geared to the teenager, who for whatever reason, does not like to read. For more information visit: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2014-quick-picks-reluctant-young-readers


THE GIRL WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE by April Henry
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers: June 2013; 5 1/8 x 8; 224 pages; Ages 14 to 18

Foreign sales:
·         British Commonwealth/Walker Books Limited
·         German/Arena Verlag
·         Turkish/Yakamoz Yayinlari


NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG by Prudence Shen; illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks—Top Ten Title!
First Second: May 2013; Trade Paperback: 6 x 8 ½; 288 pages; B&W illustrations throughout; Ages 12 and up



WHEN WE WUZ FAMOUS 
by Greg TakoudesHenry Holt Books for Young Readers: March 2013; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 320 pages; Ages 14 to 18



YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults List

YALSA’s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults is presented annually after the Midwinter Meeting. The 2014 list of 74 titles is arranged by the following three topics:
Conflicted: Life During Wartime; GLBTQ: Books with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer-questioning, Intersex, Asexual Individuals, and Their Allies; Humor Me: Funny, Fantastic and Witty Reads. For more information visit:http://www.ala.org/yalsa/popular-paperbacks-young-adults

REFRESH, REFRESH by Danica Novgorodoff
First Second; Trade Paperback: September 2009; 6 x 8 ½; 144 pages; Ages 15 to 18

Foreign sales:
·         French/Casterman


BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang—Top Ten Title!
BOXERS: September 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 336 pages; Ages 12 and up
SAINTS: September 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 176 pages; Ages 12 to 18

Foreign sales for BOXERS and SAINTS:
§  Korean/ViaBook


THE NOTORIOUS BENEDICT ARNOLD by Steve SheinkinRoaring Brook Press; November 2010; 5 ½ x 8 1/4 inches, 352 pages; Age Range: 11 to 14


PEDRO & ME: FRIENDSHIP, LOSS, & WHAT I LEARNED by Judd Winick
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers; September 2000; Trade Paperback; 6 1/8 x 9 1/8; 192 pages; B&W illustrations; Ages 14 to 18Macmillan website: http://us.macmillan.com/pedroandme/JuddWinick


DELILAH DIRK AND THE TURKISH LIEUTENANT by Tony Cliff
First Second; Trade Paperback: August 2013; 6 x 8 ½;176 pages; Ages 12 and up
Foreign sales:
·         Turkish/Buyuk Mavi Yayincilik


NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG by Prudence Shen; illustrated by Faith Erin HicksFirst Second; Trade Paperback: August 2013; 6 x 8 ½;176 pages; Ages 12 and up

YALSA Great Graphic Novels List
Great Graphic Novels for Teens is a list of recommended graphic novels and illustrated nonfiction for those ages 12-18, prepared yearly by YALSA.
For more information please visit: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/great-graphic-novels-2014

POSEIDON by George O’Connor
First Second; Trade Paperback: March 2013; 7 1/2 x 10; 80 pages; Ages 9 to 14
Foreign sales:
·         Turkish/Arkadas Yayinevi

APHRODITE by George O’Connor
First Second; Trade Paperback: December 2013; 7 1/2 x 10; 80 pages; Ages 9 to 14
Foreign sales:
·         Turkish/Arkadas Yayinevi


PRIMATES by Jim Ottaviani; illustrated by Maris Wicks
First Second; June 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 144 pages; Ages 12 to 18
Foreign sales:
·         Italian/Editrice il Castoro
·         Korean/BookSea Publishing Co.
·         Spanish (World)/Norma Editorial


DELILAH DIRK AND THE TURKISH LIEUTENANT by Tony Cliff
First Second; Trade Paperback: August 2013; 6 x 8 ½;176 pages; Ages 12 and up
Foreign sales:
·         Turkish/Buyuk Mavi Yayincilik


TUNE: VANISHING POINT by Derek Kirk Kim
First Second; Trade Paperback; November 2012; 6 x 8 ½; 160 pages; B&W illustrations throughout


TEMPLAR by Jordan Mechner, illustrated by LeUyen Pham & Alex Puvilland
First Second; July 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 480 pages
Foreign sales:
·         French/Akileos
·         German/Carlsen Comics
·         Portuguese (Brazil)/Grupo Editorial Record


BATTLING BOY by Paul Pope
First Second; Trade Paperback; October 2013; 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 208 pages; Ages 10 to 18
Foreign sales:
·         French/Editions Dargaud
·         Italian/Bao Publishing
·         Polish/Kultura Gniewu
·         Portuguese (Brazil)Cia Das Letras
·         Spanish (World)/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial


NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG by Prudence Shen; illustrated by Faith Hicks—Top Ten Title!
First Second; Trade Paperback: August 2013; 6 x 8 ½;176 pages; Ages 12 and up

BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang—Top Ten Title!BOXERS: September 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 336 pages; Ages 12 and up
SAINTS: September 2013; 6 x 8 ½; 176 pages; Ages 12 to 18

Foreign sales for BOXERS and SAINTS:
§  Korean/ViaBook