White Deer Plain, by Chen Zhongshi, made into moive

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2012-07/13/content_15578737.htm

Director Wang Quan’an has adapted White Deer Plain, a historical novel about two peasant families, into a 160-minute movie, to be released on Sept 13.

The novel by Chen Zhongshi traces five decades of two families in West China’s Shaanxi Province. Winner of the Maodun Literature Award, the top honor of China’s literature circle, the novel has long been a tempting challenge for filmmakers, but Wang’s work is its first big screen adaptation.

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Some people I know think this is one of the best modern novels out of China. Unfortunately, as I understand it the world rights (China and Japan excepted) were purchased by Le Seuil and the French version -- JUST out as "Au pays du cerf blanc" -- will be a test run for whether or not it is then translated into English...

Bruce Humes, July 19, 2012, 3:58a.m.

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French is apparently the first European language in which the book will appear. But according to a Chinese news item, White Deer Plain has already been rendered in Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Mongolian.

Bruce Humes, July 19, 2012, 1:49p.m.

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