| Sumario: | The article reports that HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. has paid a substantial sum for world rights in "Late for Tea at the Deer Palace," a mix of memoir and cultural history by Tamara Chalabi. Chalabi is the daughter of Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial deputy prime minister of Iraq. She is the author for Palgrave of "The Shi'is of Jabal' Amil and the New Lebanon," and has written articles for journals including Slate and Prospect. She began working on her proposal in summer 2005 with literary agent Elizabeth Sheinkman, who more recently joined Curtis Brown.
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