Nothing Is Forgotten
On Sale April 10th 2018
Artia Books
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From the beloved author of Comeback Love and Wherever There Is Light, comes a novel about the life-changing journey of a young man who travels from New Jersey to Khrushchev’s Russia and the beaches of Southern France as he finds love and discovers the long-hidden secrets about his heritage.
In 1950s New Jersey, Michael Daniels launches a radio show in the storage room of his Russian-Jewish grandmother’s candy store. Not only does the show become a local hit because of his running satires of USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev, but half a world away, it picks up listeners in a small Soviet city.
There, with rock and roll leaking in through bootlegged airwaves, Yulianna Kosoy—a war orphan in her mid-twenties—is sneaking American goods into the country with her boss, Der Schmuggler.
But just as Michael’s radio show is taking off, his grandmother is murdered in the candy store. Why anyone would commit such an atrocity against such a warm, affable woman is anyone’s guess. But she had always been secretive about her past and, as Michael discovers, guarded a shadowy ancestral history. In order to solve the mystery of who killed her, Michael sets out to Europe to learn where he—and his grandmother—really came from.
Featuring Peter Golden’s signature “vivid characters and strong storytelling” (The Washington Post), Nothing Is Forgotten changes our understanding of the impact of World War II on its survivors and their descendants, and will appeal to fans of novels by Anita Diamant and Kristin Hannah.
Author Info
Peter Golden is an award-winning journalist, historian, and novelist who has written nine books and interviewed Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush (41); Secretaries of State Kissinger, Haig, Shultz, and Eagleburger; Israeli Prime Ministers Rabin, Peres, and Shamir; and Soviet President Gorbachev. His first novel, Comeback Love, was praised by the novelist and reviewer Caroline Leavitt as an “extraordinary debut.” Wherever There Is Light, his second novel, was featured in New York Magazine’s Fall Preview issue, widely reviewed, and selected by the New Jersey Star-Ledger as one of the best books of 2016. His third novel, Nothing Is Forgotten, which explores the connection between the Holocaust and the Cold War, will be published on April 10, 2018.
Debut Novelists
Explore Race and Politics
The Storm
by Arif Anwar
On-sale May 15th 2018
Atria Books / Hardocver
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From an immensely
talented new voice in international fiction, a sweeping tour de force that
seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years
of Bangladeshi history.
Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of
nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last
remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar’s history, in a village on the Bay
of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of
historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese pilot, a
British doctor stationed in Burma during World War II, and a privileged couple
in Calcutta who leaves everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the
Partition of India. Inspired by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, in which half a
million-people perished overnight, the structure of this riveting novel mimics
the storm itself. Building to a series of revelatory and moving climaxes, it
shows the many ways in which families love, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one
another.
At once grounded in history and fantastically
imaginative, The Storm explores the humanity that connects us
beyond the surface differences of race, religion, and nationality. It is an
epic novel in the tradition of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and
Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, by a singularly gifted and
perceptive new writer.
Author Info
Arif Anwar was born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, just miles from the Bay ofBengal. He has previously worked for BRAC, one of the world’s largest non-governmental organizations, on issues of poverty alleviation, and for UNICEF Myanmar on public health issues. Arif has a PhD in education from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Si (Sandra) Lian. The Storm is his first novel.
Praise for The Storm
“Arif Anwar’s masterful storytelling crosses continents
and generations, illuminating how personal choices can have sweeping
repercussions. The Storm is an elegant, stunning novel that captured my
imagination and my heart until the end.” — Shilpi
Somaya Gowda, #1 international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The
Golden Son
“Complex, elegantly-composed, and page-turning at once,
The Storm is a novel both grand and intimate in its scope. Arif Anwar’s ability
to inhabit a variety of characters across countries and time is nothing short
of astounding. I adored this book.” —
Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl
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They Come in All
Colors
by Malcolm Hansen
On-sale May 29th
2018
Atria Books /
Hardcover
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The Secret Life of Bees meets
Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle in this bold debut novel,
set between the deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early 70s,
following a biracial teenage boy whose new life in a big city is disrupted by
childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a
tipping point.
It’s 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild
begins his first day at Claremont Prep, one of New York City’s most prestigious
boys’ schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of
Akersburg, Georgia a few years earlier, leaving behind Huey’s white father and
the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee River.
But forgetting his past is easier said than
done. At Claremont, where the only other non-white person is the janitor, Huey
quickly realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform.
And after a quick slip of his temper, Huey finds himself on academic probation
and facing legal charges. With his promising academic career in limbo, Huey
begins examining his current predicament at Claremont through the lens of his
childhood memories of growing up in Akersburg during the Civil Rights
Movement…and the chilling moments leading up to him and his mother fleeing
North.
They Come In All in Colors is an examination of what it means to be
biracial in America, reminding us that no matter the color of our skin, the
possibilities for our future are greatest when we accept who we are.
Author Info
Malcolm Hansen was born at the Florence
Crittenton Home for Unwed Mothers in Chattanooga, TN. Adopted by two Civil
Rights activists, his family lived in Morocco, Spain, Germany, and various
parts of the United States. Malcolm left home as a teenager and after two years
of high school education, went to Stanford, earning a BA in philosophy. He
worked for a few years in the software industry in California before setting
off for what turned out to be a decade of living, working, and traveling
throughout Central America, South America, and Europe. Malcolm
returned to the US to complete an MFA in Fiction from Columbia. He currently
lives in New York City with his wife and two sons
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