Shortly after its publication in Sweden (Piratförlaget, 2014) Herr Isakowitz’s Treasure by Danny Wattin has already been sold in pre-empts and great auctions to eleven territories.

The novel, based on the author’s life and family, is a beautiful and gripping account of a grandfather, a son and a grandson who embark on a road trip to the pre-war German territories now included in Poland. Their mission is to unravel the secrets of their eccentric Jewish family and find the treasure their great-grandfather buried before he was deported.

Wattin is one of today’s most intriguing and idiosyncratic Swedish literary talents, a view supported by the enthusiasm of publishers worldwide, who praise the way the author combines a feel-good road trip with the dark history of the Holocaust. They also applaud the cast of strong and eccentric characters and the author’s honest, personal voice. Other novels written by Danny Wattin are Excuse Me But Your Soul Just Died, 2009 and See you in the Desert, 2007.

Herr Isakowitz’s Treasure has been very well received by the critics. Lotta Olsson writing in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter said ‘Herr Isakowitz’s Treasure is a surprisingly funny, beautiful, terrible and sad book about a father, a grandfather and a son on a road trip in search for a buried treasure and their family roots. The great grandfather buried the treasure in Germany, today Poland. The ones that could, escaped. Danny Wattin’s novels play with humor, not only about his own family but also about people’s possibilities and limitations and the presence of malice.’

Herr Isakowitz’s Treasure will be published as a leading title during 2014 and 2015 in the following territories:

Catalonia by La Campana

Czech Republic by Fortuna Libri

Denmark by Politikens Forlag

France by Presses de la Cité

Holland by Uitgeverij Q/Querido

Germany by Eichborn/Bastei Lübbe

Italy by Bompiani

Poland by Foksal

Russia by Corpus Books

Slovakia by Fortuna Libri

Spain by Lumen/Penguin Random House