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This week, Gamache heads to the Far East with the Chinese edition of Bury Your Dead. At first glance, the covers look wildly different: the Chinese version features a wreath of flowers on a black background, while the original US edition shows leaves falling onto white snow. But a closer inspection reveals similar symbolism. Both covers employ the use of a blurred effect, which could allude to the blurred lines between fact and fiction as Gamache investigates his latest case.
And both covers portray foliage, in various states of decay. Perhaps a nod to the title of the book itself?
Just as foreign publishers will design new jackets for a book in their market, sometimes we’ll create an alternate look for different US editions as well. Take a look at our mass market edition of Bury Your Dead. Of the three, which do you prefer? What similarities do you see between the two US editions? What differences?
30 replies on “Gamache Goes Abroad: Bury Your Dead”
I really like the Chinese one too.
The Chinese version cuts to the chase. It says it all. The other version is very subtle, the cold the ice to leaves did in lying on the ground floating around in the air.
I would choose the Chinese version for having been direct but as the story goes there’s always hidden meaning and that’s what the other version is telling you.
I like the Chinese better. At first glance it appears to fit the title better, the dark that doom of death.
The Chinese edition is so striking and I love it. Although Chinese culture associates white with death and funerals.
Of course we tend to like those things are familiar to us.
With that in mind, I’ll pick the Chinese edition.