North American rights to Bea Setton’s debut novel, Berlin, have been acquired by Jeramie Orton at Pamela Dorman Books, from Penguin Random House UK on behalf of Johnson & Alcock. For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh, Elif Batuman and Raven Leilani, the novel follows 26-year-old Daphne who, in the grip of an existential malaise, moves to Berlin for a fresh start. But far from resolving her quarter-life-crisis, she navigates a range of challenges – grappling with a new language, acquiring friends, building a life for herself – as well as wrestling with the demons that seem to have followed her across Europe. In the UK, Doubleday will publish in hardback in July 2022, with the US edition to follow in 2023.
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