Co-op available Significant bound galley printing for media and booksellers. Additional eGalley distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through Edelweiss National print and online campaigns, targeting coverage in major daily newspapers and women’s magazines as well as literary journals, websites, and blogs that focus on historical fiction, Jewish fiction, and literature in translation Print serial excerpts possible in A Public Space, Words Without Borders, and on the PEN American Center’s website Tour may include author appearances at the PEN World Voices and New Literature from Europe festivals in New York and a translator’s presentation for The Bridge series in New York Reading group guide development and book club outreach Simultaneous eBook publication and promotion Postcards available Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing Blurbs possible from Caleb Crain, DW Gibson, Siri Hustvedt, Ilija Trojanow, and Eliot Weinberger Promotion through the translator’s website (www.alexjzucker.com) and BLP’s social media networks and website (www.blpress.org) Additional promotional support possible from the Czech Center in New York Marketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light

"The Attempt is historical fiction at its best. Through its narrator's archival approach to his material, the book explores the intimate lives of a pair of fervent idealists, as well as a robber baron and his family. The result is a vivid, poignant narrative about political upheaval, both in the past and the present." --SIRI HUSTVEDT, author of The Blazing World When a Czech historian becomes convinced he's the illegitimate great-grandson of an infamous anarchist who attempted an assassination while living in the United States, he travels to New York to investigate. Arriving in Manhattan during the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, his research takes him further back into the past--from the Pittsburgh home of a nineteenth-century US industrialist to 1920s Europe, where a celebrated anarchist couple is on the run from the law. Based on the lives of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, The Attempt is a novel about the legacy of radical politics and relationships--one that traverses centuries and continents to deliver a moving, powerful story of personal and political transformation. Magdalena Platzova is the author of six books, including two novels published in English: Aaron's Leap, a Lidove Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist, and The Attempt, a Czech Book Award finalist. Her fiction has also appeared in A Public Space and Words Without Borders. Platzova grew up in the Czech Republic, studied in Washington, DC, and England, received her MA in Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, and has taught at New York University's Gallatin School. She is now a freelance journalist based in Lyon, France.