The world’s largest bookfair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, opened its doors last October 16-20, 2024, in Frankfurt, Germany. For worldwide business and trading, it is regarded as the most significant book fair on earth. More than 4,300 exhibitors and an expected 114,000 trade visitors from 131 countries, welcoming rights professionals from a total of 355 agencies and publishers make the Frankfurt Book Fair a place of endless discoveries. On the stages we experienced exciting international voices.
As the Frankfurter Buchmesse celebrates its anniversary for another year of serving the industry, Citi of Books did not miss the chance to join the 76th Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse) in Frankfurt, Germany. This spectacular gathering honors fascinating works and their creators.
With a series of activities prepared, one of the most anticipated this year is the chosen country to be the guest of honor, which is Italy. The country will present not just its diverse, unique qualities as an attractive place to travel but also as a country with a rich literary tradition.
Citi of Books is excited to present books written by our distinguished authors. In our assigned booth, a range of books—from fiction to nonfiction—would be on exhibit. A book included in the gallery was “Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous” by Andrew Ramer.
Andrew Ramer was born in Elm/hurst, Queens, New York, across the street from an amusement park called Fairyland, and now lives in Oak/land, California, up the street from an amusement park called Fairiyland.
An ordained maggid, a sacred storyteller in the Jewish tradition, he is the author and co-author of several books including the international best seller “Ask Your Angels” and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist “Two Flutes Playing,” first published in 1991, a companion volume to which was published in 2021, “Two Hearts Dancing.” He is also the author of “Queering the Text,” “Torah Told Different,” and “Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud.” His next book, “Texting with Angels,” will be published in 2022.
Ramer is also a movement and meditation teacher. For more information on his work, you can visit his website – andrewramer.com
What if the past had been different?
In “Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous,” you can imagine an alternate reality–where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka–all lived longer lives–wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school–one of which changed history–and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender. Get a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and let’s travel to this other world!