Not surprisingly, when the week ended, Zhang Chu had won a large number of book sales champions in different parts of the world.

Although "In the Name of the People" only went on sale on Thursday, it pushed the total sales to 1.09 million in just four days, and helped Zhang Chu keep his personal record of one million in the first week!

In addition to this book, his book "Norwegian Wood" was on the Dongying book sales list for two months, and finally won the rest of the competitors, tenaciously topped the sales list, and became Zhang Chu's second book work to win the championship in Dongying.

Looking back at "Norwegian Wood" in the past few months, the competitors it faces have been out of the list one after another, but its glory seems to have just begun!

Globally, it's The Da Vinci Code, a thriller and adventure thriller released last year that has been blowing a whirlwind around the world and shows no signs of waning.

The New York Times bestseller list has reached the top of the thirteenth week, and France and Germany continue to win the top spot in a row, and it seems that no work can pull it down.

The Eurostar station of the high-speed train connecting the United Kingdom and the European continent has piled up a hill of "The Da Vinci Code" accidentally dropped by readers, and the Louvre's tourist capacity has reached its limit several times in a row, and passers-by looking down for the Rose Line can be seen everywhere on the streets of Paris.

Even in the Vatican, there are many tourists who come in with this book!

If it weren't so popular, Zhou Kang wouldn't have said that Zhang Chu's income this year might become the world's first, which completely threw off competitors by several positions.

Not only did his work sell well, but he also wrote and distributed quickly, which made it easier for him to accumulate sales than the rest.

The continued popularity of these old books has also made more and more readers interested in his new book, what kind of book is "The Lord of the Rings", and can it replicate the glory of these previous works?

Readers love Zhang Chu because his work is always varied and easy to surprise.

I have seen too much fantasy, and if "The Lord of the Rings" is not new enough, then it is easy to be compared!

Random House knows how to get the mood out of its readers, and they posted a new message on their Twitter account.

[The English version of Zhang Chu's "Lord of the Rings" will be released at the same time as the Chinese version, and your new experience of the fantasy world is coming!]

Because of the author's nationality and idiomatic language, most of his works will wait for the Chinese version to be released for several months before the English version is released.

Only a handful of them have been released in two languages at the same time, and the last time was The Da Vinci Code!

For readers, they think that the English version written by Zhang Chu himself is the best translation.

Netizens from different countries gathered on Twitter, and they were all cheering for the new news.

You don't have to ask your Chinese student friends to help translate, you don't have to look at the crappy sentences translated by Google, and it's their favorite fantasy genre!

It hardly gets happier than this!

Random House's Twitter account successfully became an Internet celebrity, and the English acronym of The Lord of the Rings book "LOTR" (Lord of The Ring) was even pushed to the top 10 of the world trend list by fans in a short period of time.

"Awesome! I'm looking forward to this work #LOTR"

"I'm watching The Da Vinci Code for the second time, and I can't get tired of watching it!"

"Is it finally coming? Please tell me exactly when. ”

"It's hard to imagine what kind of work he would write, hoping to make me explode. ”

"I need more news about him!"

Fans from different countries have been blown up, and even if their native language is not English, they can more or less watch and say something.

Of course, there are also many people who protest why only English and Chinese are spoken, without considering the feelings of speakers of other languages.

"To be honest, I can only understand a little bit of English, let me read a book of English, I'd rather die!"

"When will it be translated into French? I want to see the French version. ”

"A little disappointed, I thought he was going to get all these important language versions out at the same time. ”

"Great, I've been learning English for six years just to get to this point!"

This is a book work, not a dialogue in English like a movie, just subtitles in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish.

So much writing requires the translator to take his time.

Even the subtitles of the movie took a long time to prepare.

In any case, the warm-up for the new book has begun, and now we are just waiting for Zhang Chu to hand over the final version of the work!

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Time flies very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a third of April has passed.

When Zhang Chu carefully read the 300,000 words of "The Lord of the Rings" again, he felt quite good about himself.

"The places that can be changed, the things that need to be edited, have almost all been tried. Next, I have to find someone to try it out, whether a few stinkers can beat Zhuge Liang!"

At the moment, he has not yet spread the news of the completion of "The Lord of the Rings", and there are only so many people in the world who are grasping the progress.

Zhang Chu took the notebook and wrote down the names of several people, and he muttered silently: "This trial reading must be kept secret, although the last trial reading meeting was also confidential, but in the end, I went directly to the lecture hall, which was really a bit exciting." ”

So this time, he decided to choose only among the few people closest to him!

Even Gu Xinxue couldn't get the trial book, because this person was far away on the South China Sea Island.

If the electronic version is handed over to Gu Xinxue, it is very likely that the editorial department of the entire Nanhai Publishing Company will know about it.

"I'm about to move to the courtyard house, so let's hold a super small reading club there. ”

The decoration of the courtyard was actually done very early, because to keep the main body unchanged, only the walls, lighting and furniture were adjusted, and the speed and efficiency were very high.

It just so happens that tomorrow is an auspicious day calculated by Zhang Chu himself with his knowledge of feng shui, and he doesn't even need to bring clothes, he can go directly!

The house here will not be idle, and occasionally Zhang Chu will come to live for two days.

Everything is new over there, it's just that matcha needs to go there and get used to it.

Instead of sending text messages or WeChat, Zhang Chu felt that the face-to-face invitation would be more formal, and he would be able to meet his group of friends immediately, just open his mouth directly.

The afternoon class was about to start, so he unhurriedly packed his backpack and closed the door to drive the car!

What was playing in the car was the audiobook version of "In the Name of the People", and two days after being complained by readers, Hanlin Culture Media cooperated with Himalayan FM to launch this version.

knows the plot well, and even knows which line to say next, Zhang Chu didn't want to listen to it anymore after listening to two sentences, so he switched the listening function to the radio function to see the real-time traffic conditions or something.

Just when he was about to change to the traffic radio channel, he suddenly heard something closely related to him!

"In 2020, the shortlist of the main competition unit of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival has been released, and director Xu Ji's Feng Shan's work "Farewell My Concubine" is impressively listed, and many master works from France, South Korea, Germany, and the United States have been shortlisted.

The host spoke passionately about the news, while Zhang Chu muttered to himself: "It's finally announced, at least it's stable." ”

According to an interview with the president of the Cannes Film Festival, the opening film of the festival on May 8 has been selected as "Farewell My Concubine", and British film star and Oscar winner Ralph Thomas will serve as the chairman of the jury, and the rest of the jury will be announced in the near future. ”

Not only did it enter the main competition, but it even became the opening film!

For film festivals that last more than 12 days, the opening and closing times are the most high-profile.

In the case of the opening film, the most weighty and topical work is usually selected, and the director needs to enjoy a high reputation in the industry.

And "Farewell My Concubine" fully meets this requirement!

Director Xu Ji once won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and has been shortlisted two or three times since then, which can be regarded as a descendant of Cannes.

After watching the finished film, the organizing committee is confident in its quality, believing that it will definitely attract the love of the media, the audience and film practitioners!

Another female host on the radio said eloquently: "Director Xu Ji's "Farewell My Concubine" is adapted by the well-known writer Zhang Chu with the same name, co-starred by Zhang Guorong and many other powerful actors, and Mr. Shang Changrong serves as the artistic director of Peking Opera. The whole movie tells the story of two Peking Opera actors spanning decades of joys and sorrows, if you are interested in the content of the film, you can go and see it for details. ”

"Jingjing, it sounds like you know a lot about this work?"

"I read it on the recommendation of a friend, and it was very well written, especially the two endings have their own merits, and I don't know which ending the movie version finally chosen, which makes me curious. ”

"Really, can you tell our listeners a little bit about what these two endings are?"

Zhang Chu silently turned off the car radio, he knew that the current network should be boiling.

Every year, the Cannes Film Festival is a showbiz event!

Although there are very few actors or directors who are really shortlisted, there will be many stars and many works that go to the Cannes Film Festival to promote, and half of the Chinese entertainment industry seems to be there.

Who would have thought that "Farewell My Concubine" would become the only seedling at this year's Cannes Film Festival?

It's not a master, it's not an excellent film, and it can't enter the main competition unit at all!

80 points here, 85 points are not good, you have to be at the top!

If you want to break through from the entire eighteen main competition works, the advantages of "Farewell My Concubine" are not obvious.

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Recently, the outbreak has been so hard that the inventory in the author's head feels like it has been emptied.

Next, you have to set up a good outline, or you will be pouring the Pacific Ocean into the book.

The author has noticed it, so don't complain in the book review area~~~