ROME - Italian publishing giant Mondadori announced Wednesday it is negotiating worldwide rights for Pope John Paul II's new book, a recollection of his years as bishop in Poland.

The book will come out in Italy on his 84th birthday May 18 - a decade after the publication of John Paul's heavily autobiographical "Crossing the Threshold of Hope," which Mondadori said sold 20 million copies around the world.

Navarro-Valls described the book as "recollections and reflections" centered on a 20-year period from when Karol Wojtyla became a bishop in 1958 through his election as the first Polish pope in 1978.

The 200-page book is titled "Get Up, Let Us Go," taken from a passage from Mark in the Gospels of Christ speaking to his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane just before his betrayal and crucifixion.