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Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times, Stylist and Observer\n\n'A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving' Sunday Times, Book of the Year\n\n'In Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra (John Murray) a young woman escapes from Italy to Hollywood, leaving her father behind. The story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious' Karen Joy Fowler, Observer, Books of the Year\n\n'Its prose pulses with humour, wit and affection' Mail on Sunday\n\nThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\n\nLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.\n\nFifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nOver the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate-and her own.\n\nWritten with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls 'a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.'

Come molti prima di lei, Maria Lagana è arrivata a Hollywood per sfuggire al suo passato. Nata in Italia, Maria è emigrata con la madre a Los Angeles all'età di dodici anni, quando suo padre è finito al confino in un paese sperduto dell'entroterra calabrese. Noto avvocato romano, Giuseppe Lagana era solito difendere socialisti e altre figure invise al regime fascista, fino al giorno in cui la scoperta di alcuni documenti compromettenti gli è costata l'arresto e l'esilio. Nel 1941, alla vigilia dell'ingresso in guerra degli Stati Uniti, Maria è diventata produttrice associata alla Mercury Pictures, una casa cinematografica sull'orlo della bancarotta, alle prese con le maglie sempre più strette della censura. Maria è abilissima ad aggirarla: per anni lei e il padre hanno intrattenuto una fitta corrispondenza, ricorrendo ad allusioni e doppi sensi per evitare i tagli che i censori fascisti infliggevano alle loro lettere. Tuttavia, dal 1938, Maria non ne ha più ricevuta nessuna. Nell'ultima, una frase importante era scampata alla lama della censura: «Ci vediamo presto». Ma Giuseppe Lagana non è mai arrivato in America. Mentre la notte della Storia scende anche su Los Angeles, il cinema diventa un microcosmo di esuli dall'Europa: poeti modernisti che tentano la fortuna come sceneggiatori di b-movies , architetti famosi che si adattano a fare i miniaturisti, attori ebrei che si ritrovano a vestire i panni dei loro ex aguzzini. Finché tra loro spunta un giovane fotografo italiano nel cui volto Maria scorge un vago ricordo del passato. Porta con sé un nome falso, una scatola piena di ritagli di carta e, forse, la risposta che Maria anela e teme più di ogni altra cosa: la verità sul destino di suo padre.

Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times, Stylist and Observer\n\n'A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving' Sunday Times, Book of the Year\n\n'In Mercury Pictures Presents . . . the story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Observer, Books of the Year\n\n'Its prose pulses with humour, wit and affection' Mail on Sunday\n\nThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\n\nLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.\n\nFifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nOver the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate - and her own.\n\nWritten with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls 'a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles'.

A Granta Best Young American Novelist\n\n1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting. The mystery behind this painting threads together each of the stories that follow, where we meet a Siberian beauty queen, a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechnya, the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau, a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag and many others.

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\n\nLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.\n\nFifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nOver the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate-and her own.\n\nWritten with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls 'a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.'

Come molti prima di lei, Maria Lagana è arrivata a Hollywood per sfuggire al suo passato. Nata in Italia, Maria è emigrata con la madre a Los Angeles all'età di dodici anni, quando suo padre è finito al confino in un paese sperduto dell'entroterra calabrese. Noto avvocato romano, Giuseppe Lagana era solito difendere socialisti e altre figure invise al regime fascista, fino al giorno in cui la scoperta di alcuni documenti compromettenti gli è costata l'arresto e l'esilio. Nel 1941, alla vigilia dell'ingresso in guerra degli Stati Uniti, Maria è diventata produttrice associata alla Mercury Pictures, una casa cinematografica sull'orlo della bancarotta, alle prese con le maglie sempre più strette della censura. Maria è abilissima ad aggirarla: per anni lei e il padre hanno intrattenuto una fitta corrispondenza, ricorrendo ad allusioni e doppi sensi per evitare i tagli che i censori fascisti infliggevano alle loro lettere. Tuttavia, dal 1938, Maria non ne ha più ricevuta nessuna. Nell'ultima, una frase importante era scampata alla lama della censura: «Ci vediamo presto». Ma Giuseppe Lagana non è mai arrivato in America. Mentre la notte della Storia scende anche su Los Angeles, il cinema diventa un microcosmo di esuli dall'Europa: poeti modernisti che tentano la fortuna come sceneggiatori di b-movies , architetti famosi che si adattano a fare i miniaturisti, attori ebrei che si ritrovano a vestire i panni dei loro ex aguzzini. Finché tra loro spunta un giovane fotografo italiano nel cui volto Maria scorge un vago ricordo del passato. Porta con sé un nome falso, una scatola piena di ritagli di carta e, forse, la risposta che Maria anela e teme più di ogni altra cosa: la verità sul destino di suo padre.

Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times, Stylist and Observer\n\n'A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving' Sunday Times, Book of the Year\n\n'In Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra (John Murray) a young woman escapes from Italy to Hollywood, leaving her father behind. The story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious' Karen Joy Fowler, Observer, Books of the Year\n\n'Its prose pulses with humour, wit and affection' Mail on Sunday\n\nThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\n\nLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.\n\nFifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nOver the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate-and her own.\n\nWritten with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls 'a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.'

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\n\nLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.\n\nFifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nOver the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate-and her own.\n\nWritten with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls 'a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.'

Roman Markin amava l'arte, l'aveva studiata, sognava di diventare un pittore. Ma nella Russia staliniana, più che artisti, servivano \"censori di immagini\", deputati a modificare dipinti e fotografie per cancellare personaggi caduti in disgrazia e considerati traditori dal regime. Ma Roman non resiste alla tentazione di salvare o di aggiungere volti e particolari perché restino tracce, anche se quasi invisibili, di chi ha amato, di chi è stato, e di quello che è stato. Così, da un lato rifiuta - anche se nemmeno lui sa bene perché, forse solo per amore della bellezza - di cancellare del tutto la figura aggraziata di una ballerina invisa al regime, dall'altro inserisce il volto del perduto fratello Vas'ka ovunque, nelle fotografie ufficiali, nei quadri del realismo socialista, persino su un paesaggio bucolico ceceno dipinto nel XIX secolo dal pittore Zacharov. Ed è seguendo negli anni il destino di quel quadro, e del paesaggio che rappresenta, che si snoda questa storia fatta di tante storie e di tanti destini, intrecciati tra loro, al di là del tempo e dello spazio. Dal quadro spariranno delle figure, e altre ne appariranno, come se il dipinto volesse in qualche modo seguire le vicende tragiche del luogo che rappresenta.

*** Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 ***\n\nIn a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their life-long friend and neighbour, Akhmed, has also been watching, and when he finds Havaa he knows of only one person who might be able to help. \n\nFor tough-minded doctor Sonja Rabina, it’s just another day of trying to keep her bombed-out, abandoned hospital going. When Akhmed arrives with Havaa, asking Sonja for shelter, she has no idea who the pair are. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja’s world will shift on its axis, revealing the intricate pattern of connections that binds these three unlikely companions together and unexpectedly decides their fate.\n\n'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is simply spectacular' Ann Patchett

Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times, Stylist and Observer\n\n'A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving' Sunday Times, Book of the Year\n\n'In Mercury Pictures Presents . . . the story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Observer, Books of the Year\n\n'Its prose pulses with humour, wit and affection' Mail on Sunday\n\nThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\n\nLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.\n\nFifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nOver the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate - and her own.\n\nWritten with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents is a love letter to life's bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls 'a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles'.

A Granta Best Young American Novelist\n\n1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting. The mystery behind this painting threads together each of the stories that follow, where we meet a Siberian beauty queen, a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechnya, the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau, a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag and many others.

*** Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 ***\n\nIn a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their life-long friend and neighbour, Akhmed, has also been watching, and when he finds Havaa he knows of only one person who might be able to help. \n\nFor tough-minded doctor Sonja Rabina, it’s just another day of trying to keep her bombed-out, abandoned hospital going. When Akhmed arrives with Havaa, asking Sonja for shelter, she has no idea who the pair are. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja’s world will shift on its axis, revealing the intricate pattern of connections that binds these three unlikely companions together and unexpectedly decides their fate.\n\n'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is simply spectacular' Ann Patchett

Friedlanders shimmering prose and admirably versatile points of view make his stories compelling' SARAH MOSS\n\n'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY MARRA\n\n'A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer. Every story is a vivid world unto itself, intensely felt, and often revelatory' NICOLE KRAUSS\n\nA divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of 'holy' air to credulous tourists. \n\nIn a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales.\n\nAhead of a school 'Show and Tell', two brothers kidnap a Shoah survivor from a supermarket to pose as their grandfather.\n\nAn Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza.\n\n\nFrom the limestone alleyways of Jerusalem to the desolate Negev Desert and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's stories are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd.\n\nCasting his eye, not on the region's conflicts, but on the hopes and failures of its people, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is at times darkly funny, at others quietly devastating.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022\n\n\n\n'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY MARRA\n\n\n\n'A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer. Every story is a vivid world unto itself, intensely felt, and often revelatory' NICOLE KRAUSS\n\n\n\nA divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of 'holy' air to credulous tourists. \n\n \n\nIn a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales.\n\n \n\nAhead of a school 'Show and Tell', two brothers kidnap a Shoah survivor from a supermarket to pose as their grandfather.\n\n \n\nAn Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza.\n\n \n\n \n\nFrom the limestone alleyways of Jerusalem to the desolate Negev Desert and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's stories are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd.\n\n \n\nCasting his eye, not on the region's conflicts, but on the hopes and failures of its people, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is at times darkly funny, at others quietly devastating.

'Friedlander's shimmering prose and admirably versatile points of view make his stories compelling' SARAH MOSS\n\n'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY MARRA\n\n'A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer. Every story is a vivid world unto itself, intensely felt, and often revelatory' NICOLE KRAUSS\n\nA divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of 'holy' air to credulous tourists. \n\nIn a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales.\n\nAhead of a school 'Show and Tell', two brothers kidnap a Shoah survivor from a supermarket to pose as their grandfather.\n\nAn Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza.\n\n\nFrom the limestone alleyways of Jerusalem to the desolate Negev Desert and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's stories are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd.\n\nCasting his eye, not on the region's conflicts, but on the hopes and failures of its people, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is at times darkly funny, at others quietly devastating.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022\n\n\n\n'In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov' ANTHONY MARRA\n\n\n\n'A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer. Every story is a vivid world unto itself, intensely felt, and often revelatory' NICOLE KRAUSS\n\n\n\nA divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of 'holy' air to credulous tourists. \n\n \n\nIn a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales.\n\n \n\nAhead of a school 'Show and Tell', two brothers kidnap a Shoah survivor from a supermarket to pose as their grandfather.\n\n \n\nAn Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza.\n\n \n\n \n\nFrom the limestone alleyways of Jerusalem to the desolate Negev Desert and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, Omer Friedlander's stories are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd.\n\n \n\nCasting his eye, not on the region's conflicts, but on the hopes and failures of its people, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land is at times darkly funny, at others quietly devastating.