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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.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM de Holly Goldberg Sloan

From the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s comes a heartfelt middle-grade novel about « the importance of compassion and bravery when facing life’s challenges” (Kirkus) for fans of The One and Only Ivan and Front Desk.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Penguin US, March 2021

It’s been almost a year since Sila’s mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the U.S. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when she accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) to fix a truck outside their Oregon town. There, behind an enormous stone wall, Sila meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places. A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.

Holly Goldberg Sloan spent part of her childhood living in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she worked in commercial production in Los Angeles and in her twenties began writing family feature films, including Angels in the Outfield and Made In America. She was the first woman to direct a live action film for the Walt Disney Company when she directed (and wrote) The Big Green. She is the author of six previous novels, including the E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor Winner Counting by 7s, the New York Times Bestseller Short, and the highly praised To Night Owl from Dogfish (which she co-wrote with author Meg Wolitzer). The mother of two sons, she and her husband, Gary Rosen, live in Los Angeles.

CHILD ZERO de Chris Holm

A fast-moving, page-turning thriller about a world in which antibiotics no longer have the ability to fight off disease.

CHILD ZERO
by Chris Holm
Mulholland/Little Brown, 2022

A quick, straightforward, fast-paced read about Mateo, a boy who not only can fight off disease in a world where antibiotics have lost all of their power, but can heal others. This amazing kid is being hunted by those who want to harness and potentially extinguish his ability. When two detectives find themselves caught in the crossfire of the pursuit, they put their careers and their lives at risk, deciding to deliver Mat to The Resistance—an organization they’ve been trained to view as an enemy to the State but soon start to realize is probably society’s last, best hope.

Chris Holm is a former molecular biologist with a U.S. patent to his name so in this case especially, he knows of what he writes. He is the author of the cross-genre Collector trilogy which recasts the battle between heaven and hell as old-fashioned crime pulp; the Michael Hendricks thrillers which feature a hitman who only kills other hitmen; and thirty-plus short stories that run the gamut from crime to horror to science fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcok’s Mystery Magazine and The Best American Mystery Stories. His Collector trilogy garnered praise from National Public Radio and was nominated for several awards, including a Stoker and an Anthony. His first Hendricks novel, The Killing Kind, was named a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2015, and Strand Magazine‘s Top Book of 2015. It won the 2016 Anthony Award of Best Novel and was nominated for a Barry, a Lefty and a Macavity. He and his wife live in Portland, Maine.

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.