Allen Lane lands Krastev and Holmes’ ‘ground-breaking’ follow up to The Light That Failed

Allen Lane has signed The Hall of Broken Mirrors by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes, a follow-up to their award-winning The Light That Failed, published by Allen Lane on 31st October 2019.

Casiana Ionita, publishing director at Penguin Press, bought world English rights from Toby Mundy at Aevitas Creative Management UK, for publication in hardback in autumn 2024.

The follow-up to the award-winning look at the post-Cold War rise of populism The Light That Failed, which won the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize and has been translated into 19 languages, the publisher describes The Hall of Broken Mirrors as “a deeper examination of identity politics for nations on a global scale, including the causes and consequences of Putin’s identity war against Ukraine.”

Its synopsis continues: “Combining political psychology, theory and history, The Hall of Broken Mirrors is a ground-breaking exploration of the emerging world order as a collection of distorting mirrors, in which competing great powers vie to demonstrate who they and their enemies really are.”

Krastev is a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times. Holmes is Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the author of many books on liberalism.