#  Ravi Mirchandani scales first Summit with six-figure pre-empt, as deals fall across the globe 

 





October 18, 2024

 

 

Ravi Mirchandani has made his first acquisition at Summit Books, a six-figure pre-empt for Harvard professor Tara K. Menon’s "propulsive" debut.

This is the initial buy for the Summit publisher who, after a decade at Picador, joined the UK arm of the Simon & Schuster imprint in September when it was revived on both sides of the Atlantic. Mirchandani acquired UK, Commonwealth and translation rights to Menon’s *Under Water* from Sebastian Godwin at David Godwin Associates. Separately, North American rights were sold by Godwin to Becky Saletan at Riverhead.

*Under Water* is described as a "striking novel reckoning with grief, trauma and the convulsions of nature", which charts female friendship across two seismic events: the tsunami of 2004 in Thailand and the arrival of Hurricane Sandy in Manhattan in 2012.

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