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Thomas Schlesser, the Frenchman who is panicking world publishing

2024-01-31T15:30:53.589Z

Highlights: Thomas Schlesser has not yet sold a copy of his novel Les Yeux de Mona. The novel is already a worldwide success. Some 26,000 copies have already been published by us. A major family film is under discussion... It’s a fairy tale.” Nicolas de Cointet, the editor of the novel. “It was a lovely spring Saturday and I had barely opened the book when I devoured it: love at first sight. I was captivated by the story and the quality of writing’


PORTRAIT - The director of the Hartung-Bergman foundation publishes The Eyes of Mona, a novel on art coveted by publishers around the world... even though it has just been published.


It's an earthquake.

An earthquake in the publishing world.

Thomas Schlesser.

Remember this name carefully.

The author has not yet sold a copy of his novel

Les Yeux de Mona

, which is already a worldwide success.

China, United States, Germany... The whole world is panicking over this Frenchman's manuscript.

“An extremely rare phenomenon! 

, exclaims Nicolas de Cointet, the editor of the novel released yesterday by Albin Michel.

Prestigious publishing houses from dozens of countries sent us applications, worthy of literary blockbusters, to win the rights to the book.

We have just signed for 27 languages.

Some 26,000 copies have already been published by us and a major family film is under discussion… It’s a fairy tale.”

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Nicolas de Cointet remembers the emotion he felt when reading the manuscript.

“It was a lovely spring Saturday and I had barely opened the book when I devoured it: love at first sight.

I was captivated by the story and the quality of writing…

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Source: lefigaro

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