Ravi Mirchandani scales first Summit with six-figure pre-empt for Tara K Menon’s debut

Under Water is referred to as a “striking unique considering pain, injury and the convulsions of nature”, which graphes female relationship across 2 seismic occasions: the tsunami of 2004 in Thailand and the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Manhattan in 2012.

Menon added: “Under Water is a tale of friendship and grief, but it is also essentially about eco-friendly modification and natural disasters. It is a meditation on that and exactly how we regret, and a love letter to the going away reef and passing away forests.”

S&S’s grown-up legal rights group of Amy Fletcher and Ben Phillips have actually inked 11 sell the two weeks because the book’s acquisition, including to DuMont (Germany), Anaya (Spain), Grasset (France) and Ambo Anthos (the Netherlands). A public auction was underway in Italy as The Bookseller Daily went to push.

India-born and Singapore-raised Menon stayed in New York for a decade and presently lives in Massachusetts, where she is a Harvard aide professor in the college’s division of English. Her writing has actually shown up in the New York Times Publication Evaluation, the Country and the Paris Testimonial.

Mirchandani stated he was “overjoyed” that the “deeply moving and perfectly written” Under Water was starting the Top UK listing. He added: “It is uncommon to come throughout a debut that is quite so confidently well-achieved.”

Mirchandani was appointed by S&S to release Summit Books right into the UK market. In tandem, Top in the United States– formerly home to writers such as Marilyn French and James Baldwin– was revitalized by author Judy Clain, 33 years after it last released initial titles. In Australia and New Zealand, the imprint is being released under Jane Palfreyman who, like Mirchandani, has actually formerly operated at Picador.

This is the first purchase for the Top publisher who, after a years at Picador, joined the UK arm of the Simon & Schuster imprint in September when it was restored on both sides of the Atlantic. Mirchandani got UK, Republic and translation civil liberties to Menon’s Under Water from Sebastian Godwin at David Godwin Associates. Separately, North American rights were sold by Godwin to Becky Saletan at Riverhead.