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High-five, book world – CBC Online and Entertainment Weekly are reporting that British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, the madman behind the Borat character, has signed a book deal with the Random House/Doubleday imprint Flying Dolphin Press.

In the voice of the “Kazakhstani” “journalist,” Cohen will write a pair of books entitled Borat: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A and Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The former is billed as a guide to the U.S. for Kazakhstani travellers, and the latter will supposedly introduce Americans to Borat’s version of his home country (with a strong adherence to truth, reality, and decency, if the movie is any indication).

The website for Flying Dolphin says the publisher prints “a tightly focused list of high-quality non-fiction with occasional fiction titles. Great emphasis is placed on the quality of the writing as well as the subject matter which encompasses people and/or ideas central to contemporary culture.” Quillblog can see how the Borat titles will fit right in with that. As long as he can keep himself from talking about his sexytimes with Pamela Anderson.