Archives de catégorie : Literary

Le dernier roman de Gabrielle Zevin bientôt adapté au grand écran

Les Studios Paramount viennent d’acquérir, au cours d’enchères très compétitives, les droits audiovisuels de TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW de Gabrielle Zevin. Le film sera produit par Temple Hill (Twilight, Le Labyrinthe, Nos étoiles contraires…). Aucune date n’a encore été annoncée. (Lire l’article de Deadline)

Dans le roman, qui paraîtra en 2022 chez Knopf aux États-Unis, deux amis d’enfance se retrouvent à l’âge adulte et s’associent pour créer des jeux vidéo, retrouvant dans leurs contes numériques une intimité qui leur échappe dans la vie réelle. Leur relation explore les thèmes de la familiarité, de la passion et des conflits qui caractérisent les collaborations créatives, sur un fond de mondes imaginaires révolutionnaires du point de vue graphique, rendus possibles par l’essor de l’industrie des jeux vidéo dans les années 1990-2000 (lire notre présentation du livre). C’est Gabrielle Zevin qui écrira elle-même le scénario du film.

STRAW DOGS OF THE UNIVERSE de Chun Ye

The story of a Chinese father and daughter in the late 19th-century American West: the daughter as she searches for her father, the father as he seeks a new life in a difficult land.

STRAW DOGS OF THE UNIVERSE
by Chun Ye
Catapult, Fall 2023

Following a devastating famine in her village, ten-year-old Lin‘s mother reluctantly sells her to a human trafficker, who promises to bring Lin to a better life in America. Her mother gives Lin the profits of the sale as well as a photo of her absent father, Guifeng, who had travelled to Gold Mountain years ago before cutting off communication with his family back home. STRAW DOGS OF THE UNIVERSE follows Lin’s brave journey through the unforgiving landscape of the American West—a place particularly hostile to Chinese immigrants—in hopes of finding her father and reuniting her family. The novel simultaneously traces the story of Guifeng who, little known to Lin, has found his attempts to build a new place for himself destabilized by both a long-lost passion from home and the seemingly inescapable violence of this new land.
A deeply felt generational story of little-known immigrant history in the vein of
Pachinko, STRAW DOGS OF THE UNIVERSE considers what makes or breaks the ties of family, and shows the strength and courage it takes to survive in a new world.

Ye Chun (first name: Chun, surname: Ye) is a former NEA Literature Fellow and a three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize for poetry or fiction. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Her short stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and The Georgia Review, among other places. She has published two books of poetry: Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle, which won the Berkshire Prize. Her novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(Peach Tree in the Sea) was published by People’s Literature Publishing House in 2011. She has published three volumes of translations, including Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi, shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award, and Long River: Poems by Yang Jian. Her translation of Li-Young Lee’s Behind My Eyes and Undressing came out in 2019 from People’s Literature Publishing House, and her translation of Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares is forthcoming in 2020. She teaches at Providence College.

HAO de Chun Ye

An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following Chinese women in both China and the United States who turn to signs and languages as they cross the alien landscapes of migration and motherhood.

HAO
by Chun Ye
Catapult, September 2021

The haunting stories in HAO follow Chinese women in both China and America attempting to find language to navigate not only the immigrant experience but the strange continent of motherhood. Confronted with vast silences of gender and identity and trauma, these characters search for words to form fragile intimacies across alien or inhospitable landscapes. In the title story, “Hao,” a persecuted teacher attempts to survive the Cultural Revolution through a word game she plays with her daughter. In “Crazy English,” a woman who comes to America on a fiancée visa struggles with her anxiety around the English language and the looming menace of a stalker. In “A Drawer,” an illiterate teen mother in mid-20th Century wartime China tries to invent a language for herself through drawing.
By turns expansive and visceral, HAO is a tightly thematic portrait of the immigrant experience and a moving meditation on motherhood which will appeal to readers of
Sour Heart and Sabrina & Corina.

Ye Chun (first name: Chun, surname: Ye) is a former NEA Literature Fellow and a three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize for poetry or fiction. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Her short stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and The Georgia Review, among other places. She has published two books of poetry: Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle, which won the Berkshire Prize. Her novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(Peach Tree in the Sea) was published by People’s Literature Publishing House in 2011. She has published three volumes of translations, including Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi, shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award, and Long River: Poems by Yang Jian. Her translation of Li-Young Lee’s Behind My Eyes and Undressing came out in 2019 from People’s Literature Publishing House, and her translation of Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares is forthcoming in 2020. She teaches at Providence College.

MEMORIAL de Bryan Washington bientôt adapté pour le petit écran

La société de production A24 a acquis aux enchères les droits audiovisuels du roman MEMORIAL de Bryan Washington, paru hier chez Riverhead Press aux Etats-Unis et déjà acclamé par la critique. Scott Rudin et Eli Bush produiront l’adaptation pour A24, avec qui ils ont déjà produit Uncut Gems, Ex Machina, Lady Bird, Eighth Grade, et First Cow. C’est l’auteur lui-même qui écrira le scénario.

MEMORIAL raconte l’histoire de Benson et Mike, deux hommes qui vivent ensemble au Texas et qui s’aiment, même si leur couple bat de l’aile. Quand Mike part au chevet de son père au Japon, il fait des découvertes sur sa famille qui vont profondément l’affecter. Pendant ce temps au Texas, Benson est forcé de cohabiter avec la mère de Mike et va lui aussi vivre des bouleversements qui vont le faire évoluer.

Ce roman touchant sur les liens familiaux et amoureux paraîtra prochainement en français aux éditions J.C. Lattès.

THE IMMORTAL KING RAO de Vauhini Vara

An epic, imaginative debut novel about family, modernity, technology, and what it means to be human, told through the soul of an Indian software engineer-entrepreneur and his daughter.

THE IMMORTAL KING RAO
by Vauhini Vara

W.W. Norton, May 2022
(via Writers House)

Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao―literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father’s murder.
Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut. His wife, Margie, was an artist with a marketing genius. Together they created a new world order, led by a corporate-run government. Athena’s future is now in the hands of its Shareholders―unless she can rejoin the Exes, a resistance group sustaining tech-free lifestyles on low-lying islands.
Lyrical, satirical, and profound,
The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone―peasant laborers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers―ever get free?

Vauhini Vara has worked as a Wall Street Journal technology reporter and as the business editor for The New Yorker. Her fiction has been honored by the O. Henry Prize and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. From a Dalit background, she lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.