From Mesmania With Love | Linwood Messina

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Author:

Fabienne Betting

Publication Date:

May 2016

Rights Sold

Rights Sold:

France: Autrement
Czech Republic: XYZ
Germany: Piper
Italy: Feltrinelli

Additional Info

BONS BAISERS DE MESMENIE

Original Language: French

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"With a strong talent for comedy, Fabienne Betting puts forth a variety of themes – life in a couple, the world of books, contemporary environmental issues – while we have fun with her likable, misguided protagonist’s run of bad luck."
--Livres Hebdo

"What a pleasure to read a first novel that is as funny as it is zany."
---Version fémina

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Thomas thought he could translate from Mesmanian into French, but he was wrong…But that didn’t stop him from publishing a bestselling novel!

Thomas, a slacker in his 20s, finds a want-ad looking for someone to translate a novel from Mesmanian into French. As it so happens, Thomas studied Mesmanian at university because he was in love with the beautiful Mesmanian professor named Malislovna. But when it became clear that she had no interest in him, Thomas dropped out of school.

Thomas is hired to do the translation except that, little by little, he realizes that he doesn’t really understand Mesmanian all that well. He has difficulties translating and so he writes what he thinks the novel may be.

A couple of months after he turns in his translation his book ends up in stores but not only is he the translator, he is the author too! At the same time, Mesmania, a tiny country jammed between Russia and Estonia, becomes newsworthy after rare soil is discovered there. French readers seek out books on Mesmania and, of course, the only one to be found in stores is Thomas’s novel.

When his book becomes a mega-bestseller, despite the fact that it doesn’t always make sense, Malislovna comes back into his life and upends everything...

Fabienne Betting, born in in 1962, works in 3D medical imaging. Her stories have won different short story competitions (Prix de la ville de Verrières-le-Buisson, Prix de la nouvelle policière de Dôle). This is her first novel. It goes without saying that Fabienne speaks Mesmanian perfectly.

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