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Luca Guadagnino et Timothée Chalamet travailleront à nouveau ensemble pour l’adaptation de BONES & ALL de Camille DeAngelis

Mise à jour du16/4/2021 : droits cédés à Albin Michel Jeunesse

Une adaptation du roman de Camille DeAngelis sera réalisée prochainement pour le cinéma par l’Italien Luca Guadagnino, réalisateur de Call Me by Your Name sorti en 2017, dans lequel Timothée Chalamet incarnait un des personnages principaux. Le jeune acteur franco-américain sera de nouveau à l’affiche de Bones & All, sans doute aux côtés de Taylor Russell, pressentie pour le rôle principal féminin. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant. (Lire l’article de Deadline)

Publié en 2015 chez St. Martin’s Press aux États-Unis, BONES & ALL raconte l’incroyable voyage d’une jeune fille au sombre secret pour retrouver son père qu’elle n’a jamais connu. Ce roman qui s’apparente au genre de l’horreur (la protagoniste est cannibale) explore également des thèmes plus profonds tels que la solitude, la famille, l’amitié et la féminité. Il s’adresse aussi bien aux adolescents qu’aux adultes.

THE ROBBER GIRL de Franny Billingsley

Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force, THE ROBBER GIRL is an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality.

THE ROBBER GIRL
by Franny Billingsley
Candlewick, September 2021

We matched each other, my dagger and I. The dagger was sharp, I was sharp. Together we were sharp, together we were wild.

A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. THE ROBBER GIRL is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.

Franny Billingsley is the highly acclaimed author of three fantasy novels—National Book Award Finalist Chime, Boston GlobeHorn Book Award winner The Folk Keeper, and Well Wished. Utterly original, enchanting and compulsive, THE ROBBER GIRL is her most ambitious and powerful work to date.

Les romans YA de Jenna Evans Welch bientôt adaptés par Netflix

Netflix vient d’acquérir les droits audiovisuels des trois romans de Jenna Evans Welch publiés chez Simon Pulse aux États-Unis : LOVE & GELATO, LOVE & LUCK et LOVE & OLIVES, tous les trois des New York Times Bestsellers. C’est le scénariste et producteur Brandon Camp (Coup de foudre à Seattle, 2009 ; Benji, 2018) qui écrira, réalisera et produira les trois adaptations. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant.

Le dernier roman de l’autrice, LOVE & OLIVES, paru en novembre 2020, est un standalone inspiré de la comédie musicale Mamma Mia ! dans lequel une jeune Américaine d’origine grecque, Liv Varanakis, va retrouver à Santorin son père absent qu’elle n’a pas vu depuis des années pour l’aider dans ses recherches sur la cité disparue d’Atlantis. C’est là-bas, dans la librairie de son père, qu’elle fait la rencontre de son assistant Theo…

Jenna Evans Welch publiera prochainement d’autres titres YA chez Simon Pulse.

Les droits de LOVE & OLIVES sont toujours disponibles.

SISTERS OF THE SNAKE de Sarena & Sasha Nanua

A lost princess. A dark puppet master. And a race against time—before all is lost.

SISTERS OF THE SNAKE
(Ria & Rani #1)
by Sarena & Sasha Nanua
HarperTeen, June 2021
(chez Park & Fine – voir catalogue)

The law in Abai—the last known magical kingdom—does not look kindly on street thieves, but for eighteen-year-old orphan Ria, stealing isn’t a choice of convenience: it’s a matter of survival. So when she and her friend Amir devise a plan to steal priceless jewels from the kingdom’s royal palace and use them to bribe their way into a new kingdom, it seems a new life may finally be within reach. Then, while sneaking into the palace, Ria runs into the princess, and everything she knows about herself is turned on its head—because Princess Rani looks exactly like Ria, down to the freckle. Running into her doppelgänger, Princess Rani doesn’t see her long-lost twin or a dangerous, thieving intruder. She sees an opportunity: a chance to escape the tight confines of her gilded prison before her marriage, and a chance to find the wife of her late, beloved tutor, recently executed for treason, so that Rani can give her the valuable possessions he left behind. After Ria and Rani strike a deal to temporarily switch places, Rani discovers that her father’s kingdom is not the place of prosperity she once thought, and that it’s hurtling toward a dangerous war. Living with the Raja and the queen, Ria learns that they—her family?—have their own dangerous secrets, and that there’s a treasonous conspiracy brewing in the royal court. Neither life inside nor outside the palace walls are safe, and Ria and Rani are in a race against the clock to unravel a conspiracy and stop a war with wits and magic—or else allow the kingdom of Abai to sink into ruin.

Sarena Nanua & Sasha Nanua are twin sisters living in Ontario, Canada. Born on Diwali ten minutes apart from each other, they grew up loving stories about twins and magic, and began writing books together when they were nine years old. They are graduates of the English and professional writing programs at the University of Toronto and are also the authors of the Pendant trilogy.

INDIVISIBLE de Daniel Aleman

A timely, moving debut novel about a teen’s efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation.

INDIVISIBLE
by Daniel Aleman
Little, Brown BYR, May 2021
(chez Park & Fine – voir catalogue)

Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico has started to fade. Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they’re hard workers and good neighbors. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family’s worst nightmare has become a reality. With his parents’ fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he’s forced to question what it means to be an American. Daniel Aleman’s INDIVISIBLE is a remarkable story – both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.

Daniel Aleman was born and raised in Mexico City. A graduate of McGill University, he currently lives in Toronto. INDIVISIBLE is his first novel.