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German newspaper : A book like this has never been written before

Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 21:59


The german newspaper Sozialistische Tageszeitung reviewed Fathers Big Secret
in a special Frankfurt Book Fair supplement. The book will be on sale in Germany next week.
Among other things, the review says that the book is unique, a book like this has never been written before, this an unbelievable an disgusting horror tale.

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Is the Cannibal going to swallow Europe?

Submitted by admin on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 17:42

Now when the book launch at Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag in Germany is only a few days away and orders from German speaking web-shops have started to come in, the terrible news of yet another
publisher falling prey to the cannibal come to us. Forlaget Torgard has bought the rights to Father's Big Secret to be published in Denmark next year.

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Sold to Germany

Submitted by admin on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 00:31

DanceDanceLeipziger Kinderbuchverlag has bought the rights to Father's Big Secret for the German speaking countries. The book has already been translated to German by Doctor Hartmut Mittelstädt in Greifswald and will be in the German bookstores this autumn.

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A few samples from reviews

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 11:48

VilmundurVilmundurThe world Thorarinn Leifsson creates in this book is incredibly entertaining … the book is exciting, funny and original an will certainly be remembered for a long time … this is without question the best Children book I have read in a long time! *****

Berglind Häsler / DV - daily newspaper

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How did the book do in Iceland, the country of origin?

Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 11:45

FlyingFlyingFather's Big Secret came out in the end of October 2007 and sold out the first edition. The book was officially launched in the center of Reykjavik city with an exhibition of 16 selected illustrations from it. This was a successful promotional event which the author aims to repeat when the book is published in other languages.

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