Queen Esther from John Irving will be published by Simon & Schuster in November – News and Corporate Information on Simon & Schuster

Queen Esther is the 16th novel by Irving. Esther was born in Vienna in 1905. Anti -Semitism shapes her life, not just in Austria. Esther’s story is a fate to intersect with the history of Israel. In the last chapter placed in Jerusalem in 1981, Esther is 76. This story shows all the hallmarks of Irving’s great novel; He has an emotional power that speaks of our time and provokes our thinking.

“The novel has always ended in Jerusalem in 1981. You cannot review or rewrite the story. The construction of this novel has long preceded the events of October 7 and everything that happened in Israel after these terrorist attacks and the acceptance of hostages. It is easy to say that what I saw and heard in Israel in the early 1980s serves as a precursor to what has evolved since that time, but this is historical fiction For, ” said John Irving.

His editor, president of Simon & Schuster and CEO Jonathan Carp: “One of the deepest pleasures of reading John Irving comes from the discovery of turns in his story with his characters, so I won’t give details to details The plot, except to say this: in Queen Esther John Irving, literally takes readers where he has never accepted them before. The fact that John still violates a new artistic soil of his 80s and does so with such bold and impeccably crafted stories is another reason why he is one of the largest writers in the world. “

Carp acquired an audio, first serial, USA and open market rights by Janet Turnbul, Turnbull.

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Release the bearsIt was published in 1968 when it was 26 years old. He has been competing as a fighter for 20 years and has been training fighting for up to 47 years. He is a member of the National Flairing Hall in Stilter, Oklahoma. In 1980, G -N Irving won a national book award for its novel The world according to GarpS In 2000, he won an Academy The rules of the cider houseS In 2013, he won a Lambda literary award for his novel In one personS International known, his novels have been translated into almost 40 languages. His novel for all the time of the best-selling, in any language, is Owen Meni PrayerS A double citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

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