Promotional Information

Participate in the CBSD Galley Box and send copies to the top 50 or so Open Letter bookstore accounts: City Lights, McNally Jackson, Elliot Bay, etc.

Approximately 200 advance copies sent to primary publications (including all that have reviewed other Saer books). This list includes: New York Times, SF Chronicle, LA Times, n+1, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bookforum, The Believer, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Time Out New York/Chicago, World Literature Today, Flavorwire, Washington Post, BOMB, Literary Review, Complete Review, Words Without Borders, B&N Review, Harper's, Shelf Awareness, Quarterly Conversation, Chicago Tribune, Typographical Era, Slate, Salon, etc. Also sent to the following trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal.

Advance copies also sent to members of the NBCC Award Committee and the Best Translated Book Award Fiction Committee.

Giveaway of 25 copies on GoodReads.

Promote on Three Percent and on social media via Open Letter's FB & Twitter accounts (over 5,500 likes on FB; over 10,300 followers on Twitter).

Possibility of reading tour to various U.S. institutions.

Likely that a section of this will be serialized in a prominent journal and/or website.

About the Author

Guillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and 77 and Gesell Dome, both of which won the Dashell Hammett Prize. He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for El oficinista and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for Un maestro. Critics tend to compare his works to those of Balzac, Zola, Dos Passos, and Faulkner.

Andrea G. Labinger is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana Mara Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.

Guillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and 77 and Gesell Dome, both of which won the Dashell Hammett Prize. He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for El oficinista and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for Un maestro. Critics tend to compare his works to those of Balzac, Zola, Dos Passos, and Faulkner. Andrea G. Labinger is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana Maria Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.

Reviews

"A choral, savage, and ruthless work, considered to be the great Argentine social novel."—Europa Press

"Like Twin Peaks reimagined by Roberto Bolaño, Gesell Dome is a teeming microcosm in which voices combine into a rich, engrossing symphony of human depravity."—Publishers Weekly

"Cynical and funny: a yarn worthy of a place alongside Cortázar and Donoso."—Kirkus Reviews

"If you enjoy lyrical depictions of iniquity and a sprinkling of philosophy mixed in with your noir fiction, then you'll like Gesell Dome."—SFGate

"By using a narrator who is not shocked, who does not look away from anything, Saccomanno shines a gruesome, graphic light on what people are willing to ignore so that their comfort remains intact."—Kim Fay, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Newspaper articles, ads, and more traditionally narrated segments make up the book, sprawling along without chapter breaks. The effect is like being tied to a stake on Main Street while the personifications of sin parade by, occasionally smacking you as they go."—Eric Shonkwiler, The Coil

"A choral, savage, and ruthless work, considered to be the great Argentine social novel."--Europa Press "Like Twin Peaks reimagined by Roberto Bolano, Gesell Dome is a teeming microcosm in which voices combine into a rich, engrossing symphony of human depravity."--Publishers Weekly "Cynical and funny: a yarn worthy of a place alongside Cortazar and Donoso."--Kirkus Reviews "If you enjoy lyrical depictions of iniquity and a sprinkling of philosophy mixed in with your noir fiction, then you'll like Gesell Dome."--San Francisco Chronicle "By using a narrator who is not shocked, who does not look away from anything, Saccomanno shines a gruesome, graphic light on what people are willing to ignore so that their comfort remains intact."--Kim Fay, Los Angeles Review of Books "Newspaper articles, ads, and more traditionally narrated segments make up the book, sprawling along without chapter breaks. The effect is like being tied to a stake on Main Street while the personifications of sin parade by, occasionally smacking you as they go."--Eric Shonkwiler, The Coil