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Chatto & Windus has acquired a “genre-blending non-fiction” book by Lauren Elkin.
Editor Parisa Ebrahimi acquired world rights in all languages to Flâneuse in a deal made with Rebecca Carter at Janklow & Nesbit.
Elkin describes a flâneuse as “a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk”.
Flâneuse will trace one woman’s relationship with the city as a way to map out her own life, “taking in the paths beaten by such flâneuses as cross-dressing, 19th-century novelist George Sand to Parisian artist Sophie Calle, who lived and walked in cities before her”.
Ebrahimi said: “Flâneuse promises to be one of those glorious genre-blending books, combining cultural history, psychogeography, biography and memoir to thrilling effect.
“It will speak to wandering women everywhere, as well as to readers of Iain Sinclair or Rebecca Solnit, and spectacularly overturns the notion that city walking is the domain of male writers.”
Flâneuse will be published in spring 2015.