Night Market
A. R. Quen
- Status
- Optioned
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified. Screen rights currently under option.
- Rights available
- Film & television · Audio · Translation
Night Market
A. R. Quen
A translator working the midnight stalls of a port city is hired to interpret a confession that was never meant to be heard.
- Published
- 2024
- Length
- 368 pages
- ISBN
- 978-1-998201-05-2
- Source format
- Novel
- Scale
- Mid-scale
- Audience
- Adult
- Setting
- A port city of midnight stalls, East and South-East Asia inspired
- Territories
- Worldwide
- Chain of title
- Independently held — verified. Screen rights currently under option.
Adaptation
A limited series of lanterns, ledgers, and the gap between languages. A translator is hired to sit in on a confession; by morning the confession is hers. Crime as close as breath — not a detective, a witness.
Synopsis
Lin works three languages and no one''s hours. When a shipping clerk asks her to sit in on a conversation in a back room above the eel stall, she thinks it is a contract. It is a confession. By morning the clerk is gone and the confession is hers to carry. Night Market is crime fiction as close as breath — a city of lanterns, ledgers, and people who make their living in the gap between what is said and what is meant. Optioned for a limited series.
Comparable films / series
The Night Of; Infernal Affairs; Shoplifters
Comparable books
The Devotion of Suspect X; Nightcrawling; The City & the City
Awards, sales & credentials
Independently published 2024. Optioned for a limited series. Materials available to the option holder; further inquiries paused.
Rights on offer
- Film & television
- Audio
- Translation
Inquire / request materials
For producers, studios, and financiers. Tell us who you are, which rights you want, and whether you need the manuscript.
This title is optioned. Inquiries are paused until the option lapses or the purchase closes.