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On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the new novel by Kiran Desai.

Knopf Buys 4 Great Pages For $2.5 Million deadline.com 2010

On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the new novel by Kiran Desai.

Knopf Buys 4 Great Pages For $2.5 Million deadline.com 2010

Five hundred and seventy years later Frankfurt-am-Main, on October 5, 2010, found publishers from across the globe "in buoyant mood," according to London's Guardian newspaper last week -- having banished 2009's "mood of austerity," and busy toasting Alfred Knopf's advance of $2.5 million to a second-time Indian novelist Kiran Desai.

Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

Five hundred and seventy years later Frankfurt-am-Main, on October 5, 2010, found publishers from across the globe "in buoyant mood," according to London's Guardian newspaper last week -- having banished 2009's "mood of austerity," and busy toasting Alfred Knopf's advance of $2.5 million to a second-time Indian novelist Kiran Desai.

Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 ...

Knopf Buys 4 Great Pages For $2.5 Million deadline.com 2010

On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the new novel by Kiran Desai.

Knopf Buys 4 Great Pages For $2.5 Million The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Five hundred and seventy years later Frankfurt-am-Main, on October 5, 2010, found publishers from across the globe "in buoyant mood," according to London's Guardian newspaper last week -- having banished 2009's "mood of austerity," and busy toasting Alfred Knopf's advance of $2.5 million to a second-time Indian novelist Kiran Desai.

Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

And if Knopf's celebrated director of international rights, Carole Janeway, has been diligent about managing Updike's foreign contracts, Mr. Wylie could find himself staring into an empty tomb.

After Years of Pursuit, Wylie Signs Updike 2010

According to Knopf's executive director of publicity, Paul Bogaards, most of Updike's books are still in print in the U.S., meaning Knopf still controls those rights and will continue to do so until they revert back to the estate.

After Years of Pursuit, Wylie Signs Updike 2010

And Max Rudin, the publisher of the Library of America series, said he is in talks with Mr. Wylie and the estate about bringing out Library of America editions of Updike's work at some point in the future-something the author was very eager to do while he was alive but couldn't because such editions would compete directly with Knopf's Everyman's Library series.

After Years of Pursuit, Wylie Signs Updike 2010