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In what is certain to be one of the most talked - about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait of betrayal and retribution set against a backdrop of Iran's tumultuous history, dramatic landscapes, and cultural beauty.

Not exact matches

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

To be clear, nobody promised me anything; still, expectations were raised — by Garland's encouraging directorial debut, 2014's Ex Machina, a nearly baked speculative fiction about the responsible rearing of robots, and by VanderMeer's reputation (highly regarded, though I admit I haven't the read the books).

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

You'd think the concurrent BD debut of Pulp Fiction would warrant a notice, but then it's safe to assume most watching this already know about that one.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Chuck Hayward's (Netflix's series Dear White People) irreverent script is all about embracing your inner loser as the ultimate winner, making Emmy - nominated Jennifer Arnold's (A Small Act) fiction feature directorial debut a willfully offensive adult comedy with no manners and tons of heart.

During Flickering Myth's chat with DeObia Oparei about Independence Day: Resurgence, the actor's onscreen debut came up: another science fiction movie, Alien 3.

I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak of World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.

Recently, our author Sara Schaff's debut short fiction collection Say Something Nice About Me was included as a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards.

The Son by Philipp Meyer Ecco • $ 27.99 • ISBN 9780062120397 On sale May 28, 2013 Philipp Meyer made his fiction debut with a bang: His very first novel, American Rust, was one of the most talked - about literary releases of 2009, earning him a place on The New Yorker «s Best 20 Writers Under 40 list.

Hannah Tinti, who won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for her 2008 debut, The Good Thief, returns this week with a gripping sophomore novel about a girl trying to come to terms with her father's criminal past.

Maud's Line By Margaret Verble Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544705241 Set in 1928, Verble's debut novel about young Maud Nail, who yearns to escape her lonely life on an Oklahoma farm, was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Lost Men amplifies the best qualities of his short fiction and about which Publisher's Weekly writes «Leung gingerly reacquaints an estranged father and son who travel through China in this sagacious and lyrical debut novel.»

If you like contemporary YA fiction à la Jenny Han, I suggest you read a new debut about family and first love: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick.

Named for a flower whose blood - red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies — of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss — that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

Mark Haddon's 2003 adult fiction debut, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time, is the rare novel that can be successfully recommended to just about any reader (try it!).

We're celebrating all our favorite 2017 debuts during First Fiction Month — but it's never too early to start thinking about all the new voices coming in 2018.

Under the Udala Trees By Chinelo Okparanta Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544811799 One of Granta's New Voices in 2012 and author of a prize - winning short story collection, Okparanta received the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for this striking debut novel about a Nigerian girl's coming of age.

This magical realist debut from a poet and translator plays with the concept of fiction and what it reveals about the writer.

Mathews was a 2011 finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize, and his debut is a big, entertaining literary thriller about three Irish brothers in prewar New York City.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder» sNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

For fans of speculative fiction looking for a book that can go toe - to - toe with The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's classic about female oppression and rebellion, look no further: Jennie Melamed's chilling debut, Gather the Daughters, is the dazzling dystopian narrative you seek.

That's not even taking into account debut novelist Anna Todd's six - figure deal with Simon & Schuster for her title, After, an epic 1D fan fiction about band member Harry Styles.

Debut novelist Catherine Chung talks about her moving first novel Forgotten Country — our Top Pick in Fiction for March.The title of your book is intriguing.

At the Rumpus, fiction writer Rebecca Schiff talks about her process and the organization of her debut short story collection, The Bed Moved, as well as writing about sex, and the unexpected political conflicts that may arise from being a feminist and a fiction writer.

M.J. Rose is a first - rate novelist and, even before her fiction was brought to dramatic life in the Past Life series that debuted last night on the Fox network, she has long shown that she has a first - rate mind when it comes to thinking in independent and innovative ways about how to connect with readers.

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.

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His debut young adult novel, «47,» published in 2005, combines historical and speculative fiction about the protagonist, 47, a young slave boy contending with a brutal slave master.

Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Literary Fiction A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants...

New York, New York — March 7, 2018 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.