I noticed this morning that my blog and website have had a sudden influx of visitors from Portugal, which alerted me to the fact that A Música das Borboletas, the Portuguese translation of The Sound of Butterflies, must be out!

It’s a lovely cover, I think. I’m intrigued to see what will happen to the translation in the places where, in the English language version, I wrote some dialogue in Portuguese. I guess some copies will inevitably find their way to Brazil, and I wonder what the reaction to the book will be there (I did give it to a couple of genuine Brazilians to read before it was published).

The Russian edition of Полет бабочек (The Sound of Butterflies) has just been released.

Piemme will be releasing The Sound of Butterflies in Italian very soon. It translates as The Music of Butterflies, which is quite lovely, I think. It is now also available in Greek as Ο ψίθυρος της πεταλούδας.

The Sound of Butterflies was released in the U.S.A. on September 18. Look out for it! It is published by William Morrow – for more information go here.

The book has received many positive reviews from various critics including Book Page, U.S.A Today and The Washington Post.
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September 2007 is New Zealand Book Month and Rachael is blogging all month at New Zealand Book Month.

The Sound of Butterflies was also named one of 50 great New Zealand books for New Zealand Book Month.