Song for the Missing

• The Storyteller by Pierre Jarawan is one of World Edition’s top sellers. Published in Spring 2019, the title continues to sell at a rate of 60 copies a month. • Jarawan’s work appeals to readers of commercial fiction, and sells far beyond the limited readership of translated literature. • The Storyteller was an Indie favorite, with over 20 US booksellers blurbing the title, and enough bookseller interest to sustain a 6-week author tour across the US with over 20 events. • With the publication of Song for the Missing, we will build on our extensive marketing campaign for The Storyteller, which is summarized here: http://bit.ly/PierreJarawan • Song for the Missing will appeal to the same target group of readers and booksellers who have embraced The Storyteller. • Set in post-war Lebanon, this novel full of secrets and suspense, friendship and loss, and finally makes readers understand the crisis in the Middle East in a way no newspaper can. • Jarawan interweaves a deeply personal story with the tumultuous history of the Middle East, and breaks a taboo by asking what happened to the 17,000 missing in Lebanon, who disappeared during the civil war without a trace.