A French blog for Trois autres Malaisie and a new translation for The World of Suzie Wong!

A French blog for my upcoming collection of short stories Trois autres Malaisie has already been set up by my publisher Editions GOPE for some advance publicity. Soon the translation of Transactions in Thai from Lovers and Strangers Revisited will be available free from the blog.

Also Editions GOPE is giving new life to Richard Masons The World of Suzie Wong by launching a new revised, unabridged French translation. Chapter two, you may remember, takes place in Malaysia, in a rubber plantation.
French translations of The World of Suzie Wong and Lovers and Strangers Revisited (Trois autres Malaisie) will soon be side by side. I like that. The World of Suzie Wong was not only an international best seller, it ran for many years as a play on Broadway and in London, and the movie version won Nancy Kwan a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in the role of Suzie.

Is there a film version for one of my short stories in the making? Or maybe my Penang-set novel The Expatriates Choice, now that I finished rewriting it for the Faulkner-Wisdom novel contest. First, I need to find a publisher and perhaps a French translation! It just dawned on me that the opening scene for The Expatriates Choice begins on the ferry to Penang, and the painter Robert Lomax met his muse Suzie Wong on a ferry in Hong Ko! ng. Hmm. ..

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Editions GOPE: The World of Suzie Wong (In French)
Rediscover one of modern English literature's most famous novels in a revised and unabridged French translation! Hong Kong 1957: Rickshaws fill the narrow streets, sampans are swarming in the bay

Robert Lomax, an undiscovered painter, comes here seeking his muse. He finds her in a seedy hotel bar: Suzie Wong, a young and bubbly prostitute, an independent and self-sufficient mother with big dreams for herself and her toddler son.
As Robert paints Suzie's portrait, over and over again, the model falls in love with the artist, and he with her. But can she escape her job? Can he escape his Western prejudice? Her story is about a journey from poverty to wealth, about the fascination of the West with the East and also about the identity of the city of Hong Kong itself.
Can true love overcome race, culture and the social status divide?
Richard Mason (1919-1997) was a British writer who realized enormous success with his most notable novel, The World of Suzie Wong. His Pygmalion story of the artist who falls in love with his model ran for years as a play on Broadway and in London. The movie version won Nancy Kwan a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in the role of Suzie. In Suzie Mason has created an unforgettable character, at once strong but yielding, selfish but generous, happy as well as sad. Suzie is unforgettable.
ditions GOPE, 460 pages, 13x19 cm, 24 , ISBN 9782953553826
Tl.: +33 954 880 459 - Email: lemondedesuziewong@gmail.com

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