By Siobhan O’Leary

The debut novel by German author Rolf Bauerdick garnered quite a bit of attention among international publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, according to BuchMarkt. Publisher DVA reports that his book “Wie die Madonna auf den Mond kam” (Madonna on the Moon) has now been sold in eight countries, including the US (Knopf) and UK (Atlantic), France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Israel, and the Netherlands—particularly impressive in light of the fact that only 2% of German literary new releases are licensed by foreign publishers. The novel will be published in Germany on November 6th.