Please join us
at
Beach Books
to welcome
first-time Author
Marc Fitten
who will sign his novel
Valeria's Last Stand
on
Friday, June 12, 2009
at
3:00 pm
The year’s best new European writer may very well be an American. He’s Marc Fitten, age 34. Born in Brooklyn to Panamanian parents and raised in Da Bronx, he moved to Atlanta for high school. At 19, instead of working straight through college, he swanned off to the steppes of Hungary for four years. There, he found his wife—and an idea for a book.
“While I traveled around Hungary, I overheard a conversation between two old men who were lamenting the economic and political changes,” Fitten says. “Their state had shifted from socialism to capitalism, and people suddenly had to come to terms with that and had to re-create themselves on their own. I could see that it was especially hard on the older generation. They felt a golden age had passed and nobody seemed to care.”
Read more by Charles McNair from Paste Magazine.com
With humor and sensitivity, Fitten delivers an unexpected and entirely inspiring first novel that will leave you begging for more. It's a comic romp celebrating late-flowering love in a Hungarian village that will appeal to readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
--From the San Francisco Chronicle
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