Montano's Malady

• Serial rights targeting the New Yorker, Granta, Paris Review, Astra Magazine, BOMB, n+1, Electric Literature, Literary Hub
• National review and feature outreach to print publications (NYTBR, New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe) and online (NPR, Literary Hub, Buzzfeed, The Millions)
• Targeted outreach to publications spotlighting translated literature: World Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders
• Targeted bookseller mailing
• Promotion at/events pitched to PEN World Voices Festival
• Virtual events with author and/or translator pitched to Brookline Booksmith (Transnational Literature Series), Elliott Bay, Third Place Books, Brazos Bookstore, Book Culture, Center for Fiction
• Promotion on publisher’s website and social media; promotion via e-newsletters to booksellers, reviewers

The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolaño, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is “the most important living Spanish writer.”