CALENDAR 2009

The Books in 2009

Frankfurt remains the publishing event of the year and the main books of the 2009 season pass or cooked directly within these walls. These are the books that has been said in this edition.


- “The vampires” by Guillermo del Toro. The Mexican filmmaker, currently a wheel version of The Hobbit, has become the protagonist of the fair with its first foray into literature: A trilogy of vampire novels whose first volume the strain is already sold in all the countries.

- “The return” by Lorrie Moore. One of the books that have passed through tougher auctions in Frankfurt has been “A gate at the stairs” return to the novel by the New York Lorrie Moore after 14 years. Author of three collections of short stories and two novels, published by Salamandra, Moore will be the big launch next year in 2009 in Seix Barral.

- A mysterious best seller. One of the best books that have erupted during the Fair has been a Gothic novel, Ruby's spoon, the British debut of Anna Lawrence Pietroni. In Spain it has no publisher. Planet, meanwhile, took another one of the best sellers: Juliet, also first novel, in this case Anne Fortier. It is a thriller that combines the myth of Romeo and Juliet with The Da Vinci Code. The third asset is a new series by Bernard Cornwell that travels the Hundred Years' War. Is number one in England. It will be here, in calendar 2009.

- The new Beevor and the fall of an empire. After the battle of Stalingrad and Berlin, the British historian Anthony Beevor has already prepared its new storm of steel: Normandy, which published critical. It is a book in which Beevor been working for years and offers a new vision of the landing of June 6, 1944. The other great book of the historic Fair has been “The ruin of the Roman Empire” of James J. O'Donnell, exciting reconstruction of the sixth century. In case anyone doubted that any story of the fall of Rome has a current reading, the study begins with an American soldier in Iraq.

- “The last Le Clézio” This year the Nobel Prize for Literature has not been known at the event, but it was known a week before, but this has not prevented Anne-Solange Noble, of Gallimard, has been perhaps the person wich earns more dates in Frankfurt.

- “The war” by Tarantino. Calendar 2009 loves Tarantino. The script of the latest Quentin Tarantino movie, the war film Inglorious Bastards, has been another hot book, but wasn’t sold in Spain. Another of the book that has more audience was “The death of Bunny Munro”, a return to the novel's Australian musician Nick Cave after 20 years.

- “From World War I to AIDS”. Besides the dancing around Le Clézio, Spanish publishers have been concerned by two very different French works. La peur (Fear), which has been left Cliff is an autobiographical novel published in the thirties in which Gabriel Chevalier tells the horror of the First World War. His deep anti-war vision makes the prohibited for nearly a decade. For his part, Anagrama has been done with the most requested by Gallimard: The best part des Hommes, a story of AIDS in the nineties written by a young man of 27 years, Tristan Garcia. Calendar 2009 can show some chapters from this books.

- The end of the GDR. The German story of the year (has sold 50,000 copies in just one month and has won the Award of the Booksellers), some say of the decade, has yet to seal in Spain. Der Turm (The tower) is the second book of Tellkamp Uwe (Dresden, 1968) and recounts the final years of communist Germany through an aristocratic family. The original has 972 pages, which does not preclude the novel, which ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and has a possible second part.