Theodoros by Mircea Cărtărescu release pushed back
Deep Vellum has announced the first delay in publishing the next Cărtărescu. Seeing they delayed the Tunnel by 3 years, I am not hopeful I will ever get to read this one this decade. "
"One less happy note to close out this message. We've made the difficult decision to delay publication of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Theodoros, translated by Sean Cotter. The new publication date will be October 26th, 2027. Deep Vellum Publisher Will Evans explains the decision:
'Great books take time, and publishing is about playing the long game. Mircea Cărtărescu lived with the idea of Theodoros for decades, then spent two years writing it. The result of this long gestation process was a new monument of 21st century literature, an inimitable vision by one of the genuine visionaries of our time.
'Mircea has entrusted us to bring his masterpiece into English. We owe it to him and to his readers all over world to give this book the time it needs to become immortal.'"