Viking is set to publish the debut novel from Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon.
Mary Mount at Viking bought world rights excluding India from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown. It has already been pre-empted in the USA by Andrea Walker at Penguin Press, and in Norway by Cathrine Bakke Bolin at Gyldendal.
The novel, which has also been sold in the US and Norway, takes place over the course of one morning, and follows three brothers living close to the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, and two women, Samarra and Mina who come into their lives.
Fatima Bhutto is part of a Pakistani political dynasty. Her grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was both prime minister and president of Pakistan, and her aunt Benazir Bhutto was prime minister twice before her assassination in 2007. Benazir’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, is the current president of Pakistan.
In 2010, 30-year-old Bhutto published a memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword (Jonathan Cape).
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