Nunes had already established a business importing gemstones and jewelry to the United States, and Ms. But they did want to build a life in the United States. With divorce behind them both, neither wanted marriage. Nunes to be allowed back into the country was for them to marry. After hours of questioning, immigration officials told the couple that the simplest way for Mr. Nunes was detained in Dallas as the couple were returning from a trip to France. Gilbert thought she wanted to write a novel about the Amazon, and had a more amorphous idea for a nonfiction book about creativity.īut in May of that year, Ms. Gilbert signed a two-book deal with Viking for a novel and another work of nonfiction in 2006, “Eat, Pray, Love” had just been published in hardcover to mostly good reviews, but had not yet achieved its remarkable sales record. (Although such numbers are known to be widely exaggerated, they indicate the publisher’s ambitions.) According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of sales, “Eat, Pray, Love” sold nearly four million copies in paperback.

Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), which published “Eat, Pray, Love” in 2006, is announcing a first print run for “Committed” of one million copies in hardcover. 1 spot on the New York Times paperback nonfiction best-seller list and has remained on the list the new title will be watched closely by fans and publishing insiders to see if Ms. Given the phenomenal paperback success of “Eat, Pray, Love” it spent 57 weeks at the No. The second book has more of an academic contemplation and more of my family in it.” “It’s the same two characters, but it’s a very different setting and emotional backdrop. Gilbert said in a telephone interview from near their home in Frenchtown, N.J. In “Committed” she weaves her reflections on this material into her own experiences. She also interviewed family members and friends, and talked to people whom she and José Nunes (then her companion, called Felipe in the book), met during 10 months in Southeast Asia. In exploring her deep ambivalence about marriage having vowed never to remarry after the painful divorce that triggered the wanderings chronicled in “Eat, Pray, Love” she read historical and sociological studies. Gilbert, 40, said the book, which recounts how she came to marry the Brazilian-born Australian lover she met in Indonesia in “Eat, Pray, Love,” was not just a straightforward memoir of what happened and how she felt about it. Titled “Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage,” the book is a memoir of a tumultuous year that came 18 months after “Eat, Pray, Love” leaves off, as well as a meditation on wedlock.

A year after completely scrapping a 500-page follow-up to “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert’s mega-best-selling spiritual travelogue, she has delivered a new book that Viking will publish in January.

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