REPRODUCTION

Book ID/图书代码： 12760017B99752

English Summary/英文概要： A HILARIOUS AND POIGNANT LOVE STORY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN STRANGERS BECOME FAMILY

Told with the savvy of Zadie Smith and the energy of Junot Diaz, Reproduction is a tale of love among inherited and invented families. Ian Williams’ rambunctious novel sweeps through a world of racial and religious mash-ups, cultural collisions, and cross-pollinations galore. Consider only three of them: Felicia, Army, and Riot.

Felicia Shaw never planned on getting pregnant. But here she is, a young woman from a little-known Caribbean island who can’t be pregnant with Edgar Gross’s baby. Because he’s a married man. Because he’s a married German man who is more than twice her age and who doesn’t want any children. Also because he had a vasectomy. Then there is Army, her son. Turns out that Army has big plans for his life and a huge capacity for denial. He wants to earn 100K with his garage barbershop by the time he’s sixteen, and by twenty-one he plans to have a cool million. That is, if he can manage the upstairs landlord, Oliver, a needy, volatile, recently divorced man whose teenage daughter is now pregnant. Baby? What baby?

And Riot—Oliver’s grandson, child of a child—all he wants to do is make art films. Who cares if he’s about to be kicked out of school for making porn?

Beginning in a palliative care ward and ending in a cancer ward, Reproduction is the twenty-first-century proof of John Lennon’s famous claim that “life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” It is the story of strangers from strange places who accidently become forever tangled.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在查蒂•史密斯的智慧和朱诺特•迪亚兹的能量的讲述中，繁殖是一个关于继承和虚构的家庭的爱情故事。伊恩•威廉姆斯的这部小说充满了种族和宗教的混搭，文化碰撞，以及大量的交叉投票。只考虑其中的三个:菲利希亚、军队和暴动。

菲利希亚•肖从未计划怀孕。但在这里，她是一个来自一个鲜为人知的加勒比小岛的年轻女子，她不能怀埃德加格罗斯的孩子。因为他是个已婚德国男人，他比她年纪大两倍，他不想要孩子。也因为他做了输精管切除术。然后是阿尔米，她的儿子。事实证明，阿尔米对他的生活有很大的计划，并且有巨大的否认能力。他想在他16岁的时候，在他的车库理发店挣到10万英镑，到21岁时，他计划拥有一个酷炫的百万。也就是说，如果他能管理楼上的房东奥利弗的话，他是一个有需求的、不稳定的、最近离婚的男人，他十几岁的女儿现在已经怀孕了。宝贝?什么宝贝?

而奥里奥-奥利弗的孙子，一个孩子的孩子，他想做的就是制作艺术电影。谁会在乎他是否会因为制作色情片而被赶出学校?

从一个姑息治疗病房开始，到一个癌症病房结束，繁殖是二十世纪的约翰列侬的著名论断:“当你忙于制定其他计划时，生活就是发生的事情。”这是一个来自陌生地方的陌生人的故事，他们意外地永远地纠缠在一起。(WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/14/reproduction-by-ian-williams-review-fallout-of-an-unlikely-affair?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks

https://www.chatelaine.com/living/books/new-books-2019/#

The selection is international and includes 20 books. Chatelaine is the largest women’s magazine in Canada.

And here is the book trailer for REPRODUCTION that Penguin Random House has produced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdBKnZRkDM

Ian Williams says “Reproduction” is the closest thing he has to a child. The Vancouver-based writer has spent six years swaddling his first novel in the ... Acclaimed poet Ian Williams says first novel “Reproduction” is like a child - Medicine Hat News

https://www.cbc.ca/books/ian-williams-explores-race-class-and-identity-in-his-debut-novel-reproduction-1.5014804

Ian Williams’ REPRODUCTION is shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award. Winner announced May 22. https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/04/26/tanya-tagaq-ian-williams-among-finalists-for-60000-amazon-canada-first-novel-award.html

And REPRODUCTION has had a feature review in a major national magazine, The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/multiculturalism-is-not-the-real-story-of-canada/

•Ian Williams’ debut novel Reproduction will be published in the USA in January 2020 by Europa. He has had two ward nominations so far and more are expected.

A fun graphic review of Ian Williams’ REPRODUCTION in the Temz Review!

https://newz4u.ca/articles/2019-toronto-book-awards-short-list-announced?fbclid=IwAR0p55A99yhTQPIyMNL56PKPAcQbHllQJyGXPXfnajKE7QFzLSurmTx5zEU

Reproduction is #6 in general fiction and #2 in Canadian fiction
Aminatta’s books have been translated into twenty-two languages. She was a juror on the Giller Prize.
https://www.aminattaforna.com/about-aminatta-forna.html
https://www.bookweb.org/news/june-2020-indie-next-list-preview-577133
In April he will interview Kazuo Ishiguro and in May, Viet Thanh Nguyen. I’ll send you those when we have them.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marilynne-robinson-in-conversation-with-ian-williams/id1498842737?i=1000495940708
He has also just been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/4-canadian-titles-longlisted-for-153k-dublin-literary-award-for-best-global-work-of-fiction-1.5900946
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q

About the Author/作者介绍： 伊恩•威廉姆斯是人物的作者，他入围了格里芬诗歌奖和罗伯特克洛艾奇诗歌奖；没有人的任何东西，丹努塔奖的获得者，为加拿大最好的短篇小说集的最佳作品奖；你知道你是谁，是诗歌奖的决赛选手。他被加拿大广播公司评为10位加拿大作家之一。

威廉姆斯目前是英属哥伦比亚大学创意写作项目的助理教授。在乔治•埃利奥特•克拉克的领导下，他在多伦多大学完成了他的英语博士学位。2014-2015年，他是加拿大卡尔加里大学杰出作家项目的常驻作家。他曾在佛蒙特的工作室中心、班夫中心、凯文凯姆和国家人文中心等地获得过过奖学金或居住过。威廉姆斯出生在特立尼达，在安大略省的布兰顿长大，在搬到温哥华之前曾在马萨诸塞州和多伦多工作。

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Random House Canada Publisher. sold to Michael Reynolds at Europa Editions by Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency, for publication in early 2020.
Italian rights to award-winning poet and short story writer Ian Williams’ Giller Prize-shortlisted debut novel.

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