{"id":72705,"date":"2023-03-22T17:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=72705"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T09:19:36","slug":"who-is-sarah-rivens-the-24-year-old-algerian-author-who-trusts-fiction-sales-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/who-is-sarah-rivens-the-24-year-old-algerian-author-who-trusts-fiction-sales-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Sarah Rivens, The 24-Year-Old Algerian Author Who Trusts Fiction Sales? VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We know almost nothing about her, except that she signs &#8220;Sarah Rivens&#8221;, without her real surname having ever been revealed, and that she is the administrative manager of a sports hall in Algiers. \u2026 She has been posting since she was 19 on the story-sharing platform Wattpad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was there, under the nickname \u201ctheblurredgirl\u201d (\u201cthe blurred girl\u201d), that she became a star, chapter after chapter, with millions of readings (9 million today).<\/p>\n<p>All commented, analyzed, carried by millions of fans and videos on social networks, mainly Instagram and #Booktok (TikTok&#8217;s global book club).<\/p>\n<div class=\"ose- ose-uid-c155ced1ee725a89f1b39712c57e96e6 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\"><iframe allowFullScreen=\"true\" class=\"embera-facebook-iframe-c155c embedpress-facebook--iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNASSER.YANAT%2Fvideos%2F6302542343142170&width=600&height=550&show_text=true\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In short, Sarah Rivens is a precipitate of the time<\/strong> and beyond the digital phenomenon, the physical version of her saga no longer leaves the top of fiction sales.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between the Pierre Lemaitre and others, when it was released at the end of January, volume 2 of &#8220;Captive&#8221; even ranked directly number 1 in all categories, dethroning the &#8220;Memoirs&#8221; of Prince Harry!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Not bad for a publication already available online for free.<\/h4>\n<p>For the 2 volumes of &#8220;Captive&#8221;, plus the intermediate volume, the French publisher &#8211; namely &#8220;BMR&#8221; Hachette&#8217;s &#8220;romance without complex&#8221; label &#8211; has already printed 1.5 million copies and translated the saga into 9 languages. We will know that we can count on the famous generation Z to support the book market \u2013 the very one who would be addicted to screens and unable to open a book\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but what are they looking for in these particular books?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>dark romance<\/strong>&#8220;: be careful, it&#8217;s violent, it must not be &#8220;cute&#8221;. The heart of the readership is between 18 and 25 years old, and is passionate about Ella, &#8220;captive&#8221; of a mafia network, the Scotts, who will be delivered to Asher, a violent handsome guy who will humiliate her. Except that the two individuals that everything opposes will bind feelings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A toxic relationship<\/strong>, the girl falls in love with her attacker, it&#8217;s not very 21st century, except that young readers can make, in fiction, other moral or political arbitrations, than in reality.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the main literary quality of this saga is to make &#8220;captives&#8221; precisely. We will find arguments like \u201cI was spellbound from start to finish\u201d in the video comments of readers on TikTok! But also confessions of &#8220;parents&#8221; on Babelio, f<strong>rightened by the subject and the style, but obliged to recognize that it is addictive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From her gym in Algiers, the author &#8220;Sarah Rivens&#8221; will therefore have opened a discussion between generations and hooked a new audience to reading. Captivating!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Translated from : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofrance.fr\/franceinter\/podcasts\/un-monde-nouveau\/un-monde-nouveau-du-mardi-14-mars-2023-5472161\">https:\/\/www.radiofrance.fr\/franceinter\/podcasts\/un-monde-nouveau\/un-monde-nouveau-du-mardi-14-mars-2023-5472161<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know almost nothing about her, except that she signs &#8220;Sarah Rivens&#8221;, without her real surname having ever been revealed, and that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":72562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria","category-art"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Is Sarah Rivens, The 24-Year-Old Algerian Author Who Trusts Fiction Sales? 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