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LES CHATS PERSANS Ashkan Kooshanejad & Negar Shaghaghi

No One Knows About Persian Cats offers an unusual glimpse of life in Iran. Two brothers, Ashkan and Pooya, fend for themselves in Tehran after their parents emigrate. By day they work, by night they are rock musicians. They rehearse their compositions with their band, Font, in a secret basement recording studio. Then they perform live in front of 600 musicians and rock fans at an illegal gig in the suburbs which is raided by the Police Special Forces. When Ashkan meets Negar his life changes. They form a new group, Take It Easy Hospital. Their attempts to find band members in the underground music scene of Tehran are filmed in seventeen days by Kurdish film maker Bahman Ghobadi. “The first Iranian film about music and rock ‘n’ roll’” goes on to win the Un Certain Regard award and the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2009.

28 April 2011 éditions Florent Massot. 19,90€ ISBN 978-2-016546-85-8
WEL & foreign rights - Valentin Baillehache, email, valentin@florentmassot.com

Literary Estates
Lesley Blanch, 1904-2007, was at heart a nomad

Her lifelong passion was for Russia and the Middle East. An inspiration to generations of writers, readers and travellers, her books include The Sabres Of Paradise and timeless classic, The Wilder Shores of Love. Her Literary Executor is Georgia de Chamberet. The Lesley Blanch Estate is represented by United Agents, e: CMacarthur@unitedagents.co.uk or Giles Smart (dramatic rights) e: gsmart@unitedagents.co.uk Translation Rights are handled by the Intercontinental Literary Agency e: Mary.Esdaile@ila-agency.co.uk

MAUREEN CLEAVE, DAILY TELEGRAPH - A scholarly romantic in a school of her own, the depth of Lesley Blanch’s research is such that other writers plunder her books shamelessly

Professor Elton Mayo photographed by George Pitt Rivers

Psychologist, sociologist and management guru

Professsor George Elton Mayo (1880-1949) is famous for the Hawthorne studies, a landmark in industrial psychology. He features in The Economist Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus by Tim Hindle (Profile Books). His literary estate is represented by BookBlast. Harvard Business School and Harvard University Press have reverted rights in titles The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization (including The Political Problems of Industrial Civilization) and Some Notes on the Psychology of Pierre Janet.
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization and The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization are in print with Routledge.

ELTON MAYO - If our social skills had advanced step by step with our technical skills, there would not have been another European war
The French Connection

BookBlast offers B2B book doctoring and editing services. Recent work includes collaborating with Ashkan Kooshanejad & Negar Shaghaghi on their memoir,
No One Knows About Persian Cats for éditions Florent Massot.
Other recent commissions include reader's reports for Harvill Secker and
Mulcahy Conway Associates.
BB also offers B2B French-to-English translation services. Recent work includes sample translation(s) for éditions Flammarion, and the
Lhoist Group Corporate Art collection.

Journalism

BookBlast has a particular commitment to international writing and ways to build a writing platform — from being showcased in print anthologies, published in translation, or being reviewed and interviewed for specialized websites.

Georgia de Chamberet’s occasional articles on culture, travel and translation; interviews and reviews have appeared online and in publications: Prospect Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, Independent, The Lady, BANIPAL; www.3ammagazine.com and www.booktrust.org.uk read more »