Adult’s Fiction Rights Guide Fall 2021

- 7 - Needle lost Christos Armando Gezos A man who spends his life stigmatized by fate on the edge of a hill. A mother that devotes herself on her family’s adversities. A son that searches for his younger brother across the world. From early 20th century Albania, through 80s Greece and the heart of the American continent, this is a multilayered novel about immigration, life in a new country, hope, but also how history and politics can crash the dreams of common people. Christos Armando Gezos was born in Himara in 1988 and grew up in Greece. He graduated from the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering. His first poetry collection Unfulfilled fears won the 2013 State Award for Emerging Author and his first novel Mud was shortlisted for the 2015 Athens Prize for Literature. Pages 320 May 2021 “Gezos, writing with a tamed fire, creates a remarkable panorama of stylistic transformations, that prove his maturity as a writer. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a great prose writer”. - Lina Pantaleon, Kathimerini - F I C T I O N - Penelope’s return: Eight days in Smyrna Noelle Baxer Penelope Surrey, a Greek-British living in Athens, travels to Smyrna a century after the Catastrophe. She carries with her family stories and souvenirs from her ancestors’ life: the terrifying events of 1922 that her grandmother and aunts told her, but also their memories of the years before that. Penelope will spend eight days in Smyrna, looking for traces of old footsteps and gazes, and finding new feelings, thoughts and unexpected truths. Looking like the city was waiting for the descendant’s return, Penelope’s journey will put into perspective all the stories and feelings that she inherited. Noelle Baxer is a Greek-British born in Athens. She studied Greek Literature and Archeology in Greece and Great Britain and she has worked in advertising and PR. She also writes for newspapers and magazines. This is her sixth novel. Pages 352 Μay 2021