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Aurum’s Union Books has pre-empted a “major” work of non-fiction by Amit Chaudhuri, entitled Calcutta: Two Years in the City.
Editorial director Rosalind Porter acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding India and Canada, in the title from Peter Straus, with plans to publish the book as a lead title in 2013 alongside Penguin India and Knopf in the US.
Porter said: “Like Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk, Calcutta is a personal history of a city made distinct by the interplay between the twin realities of Amit’s having been born there and the experience of returning as an adult. It’s a superbly written, intelligent, moving and terribly funny work by one of our most celebrated novelists, and I simply had to have it.”
Meanwhile, Porter has also acquired a memoir by Marco Roth, co-founder of politics, literature and culture journal n+1, called The Scientists: A Family Romance. Porter, who described it as “moving yet hardheaded and not self-pitying” book, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Natasha Fairweather on behalf of Elyse Cheney, and will publish the book in spring of next year.