New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI/PRNewswire): HarperCollins India is delighted to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish Naheed Phiroze Patel s brilliant coming-of-age novel, A Mirror Made of Rain.
Publishing under the prestigious Fourth Estate imprint and set for release in April 2021, this intricately textured work of fiction, is both riveting and discomfiting, as it brings alive a world and characters that are complex, layered and flawed, yet breathtakingly real.
The book has elicited some warm advance praise and here s what writer Diksha Basu has to say about it, A Mirror Made of Rain is luminous - a blistering and unflinching commentary on family, love, pain, addiction and destruction. We are lucky to have Naheed Patel writing.
New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI/PRNewswire): HarperCollins India is delighted to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish Naheed Phiroze Patel s brilliant coming-of-age novel, A Mirror Made of Rain.
Publishing under the prestigious Fourth Estate imprint and set for release in April 2021, this intricately textured work of fiction, is both riveting and discomfiting, as it brings alive a world and characters that are complex, layered and flawed, yet breathtakingly real.
The book has elicited some warm advance praise and here s what writer Diksha Basu has to say about it, A Mirror Made of Rain is luminous - a blistering and unflinching commentary on family, love, pain, addiction and destruction. We are lucky to have Naheed Patel writing.
News Corp said net quarterly profit nearly tripled, driven by strong growth at its book-publishing and digital real-estate businesses as well as at Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones & Co.
The New York-based media company, which owns the Journal, HarperCollins Publishers and news organizations in the U.K. and Australia, posted net profit of $231 million, or 39 cents a share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with $85 million, or 14 cents a share, a year earlier, thanks to improved performance and lower operating expenses. Revenue slipped 2.6% to $2.41 billion, primarily due to the loss of contributions from its coupon-publishing unit, which was sold last year.
Tochi Onyebuchi’s
Riot Baby has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Fiction.
The NAACP Image Awards were first presented in 1967, and were founded to honor outstanding performances in film, television, music, and literature. This year, the nominees for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction are:
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall (HarperCollins Publishers)
Lakewood by Megan Giddings (HarperCollins Publishers)
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (TorDotCom Publishing)
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley (Grove Atlantic)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books)
Tochi Onyebuchi’s
Riot Baby is perhaps best described in a review from Alex Brown which begins by telling readers: