It will be an adaptation of Ronan Bennett's novel "The Catastrophist, " a love story set against the Belgian Congo's decolonisation in the 1960s.

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By early 2008, his novel "First Experience, " a story about love and sex in high school, was a top title in one of Tokyo's biggest bookstores.

CNN: Cell phone stories writing new chapter in print publishing

This novel, Emmanuel Darley's second, is the story of an exclusive love that turns into a nightmare, perhaps because the protagonists have no common language: the boy is enclosed in the simplicity of his own world, the little girl only laughs or cries, and the police speak only the language of the law.

ECONOMIST: Fiction from France

Based on an English novel by famous Indian writer RK Narayan, Guide is the story of a tourist guide who falls in love with a married woman.

BBC: Filmmaker Vijay Anand

Although for most of the story the two are parted, Will's pining for his true love should provide the novel with its narrative drive.

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