Daniel Pennac, Author, Max Grafe, Illustrator, Sarah Adams, Translator , illus. by Max Grafe, trans. by Sarah Adams. Candlewick $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1896-4
Two allegorical stories, one of a boy named Africa and one of a captive Alaskan wolf who has only one eye, Blue Wolf, merge through a unique device in this unusual tale by French author Pennac: the boy and wolf communicate solely through eye contact.
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Daniel Pennac, Author, Ian Monk, Translator , trans. from the French by Ian Monk. Harvill $15 (181p) ISBN 978-1-86046-801-8
French author Pennac's fourth foray into Paris's Belleville quarter (The Fairy Gunmother, etc.) falls short of his usual high standard, though it exudes plenty of Gallic charm. Narrator and series hero Benjamin Malaussène, having left
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Daniel Pennac, Author, Ian Monk, Translator Harvill Press $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-86046-325-9
French novelist Pennac arrives in America with his stylish second crime novel (published in France as La Fee carabine, in 1987) featuring mild-mannered publishing peon Benjamin Malaussene. In the ethnic Parisian neighborhood of Belleville, a...
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Daniel Pennac, Author, Ian Monk, Translator Harvill Press $23 (256p) ISBN 978-1-86046-442-3
Pennac's comic mysteries about a young man who takes responsibility for everything that goes wrong at his job and who looks after his wayward mother's many children at home are very popular in his native France. They're also catching on in England,...
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Daniel Pennac, Author, Ian Monk, Translator Harvill Press $23 (224p) ISBN 978-1-86046-535-2
Benjamin Malauss ne is not only the director of Vendetta Press, a small, literary Parisian publishing house, but also the official company scapegoat. And as this accomplished, satisfying third English-language installment of the French crime writer's
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Daniel Pennac, Author, Sarah Adams, Translator , trans. from the French by Sarah Adams. Candlewick $15.99 (181p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2421-7
"We grow up seven times faster than they do, and that's what makes it difficult," says the street-wise Hyena to the scruffy and mostly unloved Dog in Pennac's (Eye of the Wolf
) bitter pill of a tale. Dog's story unfolds through...
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Daniel Pennac, Author, Ian Monk, Translator Harvill Press $22.95 (426p) ISBN 978-1-84343-020-9
In Daniel Pennac's delightfully quirky Monsieur Malauss ne (translated from the French by Ian Monk), the final book in his Belleville quintet (The Scapegoat, etc.), his hapless hero, Benjamin Malauss ne, once again plays the fall guy. Charged...
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