Novelist Rumaan Alam (Rumaan) discusses his timely new book LeavetheWorldBehind and its anticipated Netflix adaptation from Sam Esmail, with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington set to star
The last few months have been something of a whirlwind for novelist Rumaan Alam with his upcoming third novelgarnering critical praise and award attention, as well as already securing a Hollywood adaptation.
Though Alam will not be involved in the cinematic adaptation, he assures his story"could not be in better hands" than with Esmail. "I think people respond to certain ways of storytelling. I try to learn from that experience, learn from having written a couple of books that don't move this way and trying to write something that did have a different sense of momentum, a different sense of plot," he says.
"The work feels, to me, very grounded in realism because that's what it is to live right now. We're sort of all negotiating very abstract ideas and fears and we don't really have all the information. It's very hard to say exactly why we are feeling the way we're feeling this particular moment." Meanwhile, Alam writes G.H.'s first encounter with the couple as,"He held up his hands in a gesture that was either conciliatory or saidThe unconscious racial biases and uncomfortable prejudices displayed by the characters coincidentally resonate as the book is also being released amid nationwide calls for racial equality.
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