THE OTHER HAND (US TITLE: LITTLE BEE)

Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B25474

English Summary/英文概要： We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:

It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.

The story starts there, but the book doesn’t.

And it’s what happens afterwards that is most important.

Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.

She has nowhere else to run. You have nowhere left to hide.

This is the story of Little Bee, a Nigerian girl who has fled to the UK after her village was burned to the ground and her family murdered. When she is released into the British countryside after two years in a detention centre she seeks out Sarah and Andrew, the couple that saved her life back in Nigeria. Narrated alternately by Little Bee and Sarah, this is an absolute triumph. Cleave’s writing talents are prodigious and he keeps getting better - his books are passionate, hilarious, intelligent, topical and hugely readable.

Below is the foreword from the editor of the UK Edition：
Dear Reader,
You don’t know me. I’m Chris Cleave’s editor, and I’m writing to tell you how extraordinary The Other Hand is. As publishers, naturally we only publish books we love, but every now and then something comes along that is so special it gives us goosebumps. This is one of those books ± just as David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark were. These had a massive impact on readers worldwide, and I am very proud that The Other Hand now sits beside them on the Sceptre list. It’s an amazing novel ± horrifying but hilarious, tragic but uplifting, hugely entertaining and highly intelligent. I hope you love this book as much as I do.
Yours sincerely,
Suzie DooreÂ
Senior Editor

Suzie Doore, Chris Cleave’s editor and Senior Editor at Hodder, says that it is selling over 5,000 copies a week and "demand is outstripping supply!" She says that; "We’ve got other publishers calling us asking how we did it because the book’s bucking the sales trend for literary fiction".

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 此書講述兩位生命截然不同的女性，一位是從奈及利亞逃出的難民，另一位是生活在英國郊區的家庭主婦，兩位最初的相遇是在一年前非洲的某個海邊，故事藉由兩人交互的發聲及充滿人性、詼諧的口吻…(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：An international bestseller
A #1 New York Times bestseller
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year
Shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writer’s Prize!

118,000 copies now sold in paperback! Lots of film interest, including from Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie, but 4 other film companies interested in acquiring the film rights. Also picked as the first book in a new bookclub that CBS Television have set up for their Early Morning Show
Brilliant!

About the Author/作者介绍： Chris Cleave’s debut novel INCENDIARY was an international bestseller published in 20 countries. It won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award 2005, won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007, and will be released in early 2008 as a major motion picture.
Inspired by his early childhood in West Africa, THE OTHER HAND is Chris Cleave’s second novel. He is married with two children, and lives in London. He keeps a website at www.chriscleave.com.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD: UK: Sceptre; US: Simon & Schuster; Albania: Pegi; Brazil: Intrinseca; Bulgaria: ICU; Catalan: Ara Llibres; China: Shanghai Ying Te Song culture Co. Ltd.; Czech Republic: Albatros; Denmark: Politikens; Estonia: Helios; Finland: Gummerus; France: Laffont; Germany: DTV; Greece: Patakis; Holland: Prometheus; Hungary: Athenaeum; Iceland: Bjartur; Indonesia: Gagas Media; Israel: Modan; Italy: Bompiani; Norway: Aschehoug; Poland: Bertelsmann; Portugal: ASA; Russia: Ripol; Serbia: Beobook; Slovenia: Mladinska Knjiga; Spain: Maeva; Sweden: Brombergs; Taiwan: Crown; Thailand: Class Act; Turkey: Pegasus; Vietnam: Tre

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