Shaftsebury Films in Toronto has optioned the rights to Rotenberg's first novel
Old City Hall and plans to launch a television series. In England
Old City Hall was shortlisted for the Silver Dagger Award. The book is now out in England, Germany, Italy and Spain, with Russian, French, Polish, Hebrew and Japanese translations to come. The book is also out in audio book in both North America and the U.S. Rotenberg is just completing his second novel to be published by Farrar Strauss & Giroux in the U.S., Simon and Schuster in Canada, John Murray in the U.K. etc.
