The German rights to One Thousand and One by Kari Hukkila have been acquired by Droschl, marking the second foreign deal for this philosophical title.
One Thousand and One by Kari Hukkila is travelling to the German-speaking world, where it will be published by Droschl.
One Thousand and One is a philosophical novel about telling stories, and how they intertwine: a writer is distracted from his manuscript by a tree falling on his cabin, and decides to accept a friend’s invitation to visit him in Rome. From there, different stories unravel: Scheherazade’s survival by continuing to tell stories is reimagined as survival by continuing to think. Kari Hukkila’s musical, meandering, thought-provoking prose is full of savage, ironic, and luminous humor, remaining uncompromisingly alive until the final sentence.
Kari Hukkila is an author, dramaturg and essayist, and won the Helmet Prize with One Thousand and One, his debut novel, published in Finland by Teos. One Thousand and One is out in English with Contra Mundum Press.
Droschl is an Austrian publishing house specialized in philosophy and contemporary literature. They are the Austrian home of, among others, Lydia Davis and László Garaczi.
Congratulations to the author and the publisher!