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When Zlata's Diary— the hadnting, real-life diary of an 11-year-old girl, ZLATA FILIPOVIC, who has survived the war in Sarajevo—hit the top of France's best-seller list last December, the publishing industry seemed to teeter on the brink of global Zlata-mania. Rights were snapped up in 20 other countries, including the United States. In a heated auction, Viking paid more than half a million dollars to publish the book here this month, and the Book-of-the-Month Club beat out the Literary Guild for book-club rights. Meanwhile, the French government has helped the young author and her family escape to Paris; from there, she will crusade in behalf of less fortunate Sarajevo children (and, one suspects, answer phone calls from ICM re her film deal with Universal).

Also this month: CONNIE BRUCK'S Master of the Game (Simon & Schuster) is a biography of Steve Ross, the flamboyant Time Warner mogul. HAROLD BRODKEY charts the vicissitudes of love in his new novel, Profane Friendship (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). It All Adds Up (Viking) is a collection of SAUL BELLOW'S nonfiction. NICHOLAS COLERIDGE, managing director of Cond6 Nast U.K., looks at newspaper tycoons of the last two decades in Paper Tigers (Birch Lane). Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster) is HENRY

KISSINGER'S personal and historical account of the art of negotiating. A waitress at a clam bar embarks on a journey of selfdiscovery in ERIC KRAFT'S comic novel What a Piece of Work I Am (Crown). SUSAN JONAS and

MARILYN NISSENSON

look at vanishing Americana in Going, Going,

Gone (Chronicle). CAROLYN JONES documents the optimistic side of living with H.I.V. in Living Proof (Abbeville). Still Alive (Yale) is Polish 6migr6 JAN KOTT'S autobiography. MARY BLUME offers a social history of the Riviera in Cote d'Azur (Thames and Hudson). Inside the Art World (Rizzoli) is a collection of BARBARALEE DIAMONSTEIN'S chats with art-world denizens. In My Idea of Fun (Atlantic Monthly Press), WILL SELF tells the story of a London marketing executive with a grisly past. And a teenage girl tangles with narcotics and oblivion in HEATHER LEWIS'S first novel, House Rules (Doubleday).

HENRY ALFORD