JK Rowling to conquer the adults – News from France

Publication Date 4 July 2012

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culture-match | Wednesday, July 4, 2012

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The book of the season will be signed by the mother of Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling, the creator of the magician Harry Potter, recreates the event. After announcing on February 23, she would publish a new novel, “very different” she said of her previous works, the coverage of it was unveiled Tuesday, July 3, the author’s website. “The Casual Vacancy” (“A place to take”, in French, but already unofficially announced as such on Amazon), published by Little, Brown for the English paper, released worldwide on September 27. To make his fans wait, the new novel’s plot was revealed.

Following the death of Councillor Barry Fairweather, City Pagford a priori very quiet and uneventful, is immersed in dismay. A place in the parish council is now free, which will soon lead to a real battle between the inhabitants, probably the worst ever for the city.
Full of black humor, this novel is based on the publisher Little, Brown “a book thought-provoking and constantly surprising,” written by “a storyteller like no other.” Intended for mature audiences, this book allows the author to start a 180 ° by changing the registry completely. And it is for this reason that JK Rowling has decided to leave the Gallimard Jeunesse in France for Editions Grasset.

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adapted it according to his novel, which now seeks a more adult audience, this change would better target its new audience. If the author, this new album, seems totally leave traces of his little magician, however, she made an announcement on its website about an encyclopedia of the magical world of Harry Potter. JK Rowling and have never refused the idea of ??continuing the saga of Harry Potter in the future.

But changing his tone, it also changed translator from Jean-François Ménard had translated the seven volumes of Harry Potter and Pierre Demarty, information that has been confirmed by the French publishing house Grasset. Normale, Associate in English, and now in the publishing house since 2005, it said on the website of the Company of Men of Letters, Pierre Demarty is already known for his translations include TC Boyle, Joan Didion, or William T. Vollmann. With this new novel, she will do as well with Harry Potter? Recall that the adventures of Hogwarts students have sold over 450 million copies, have been translated into over 70 languages ??and sold in over 200 countries.

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