Bloodletting

Vincent Lam’s miraculous book goes under the knife for television
By Charles Foran
· Illustration by Graham Roumieu
Television · From the January/February 2010 magazine
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That take won’t be appearing in the final cut of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. But Lam has literary mischief of his own making under way. His first novel, Cholon, Near Forgotten, will be published this coming fall. It tells the story of Percival Chen, a Hong Konger who flees to Saigon from the Japanese invasion in 1945 and later washes ashore in Australia. Percival Chen is the grandfather of Dr. Chen, and an earlier version of a tale he will narrate in the novel has already been outlined, in miniature, in the story “A Long Migration” from Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. The novel will be, in that regard, the book that the TV Dr. Chen might be secretly writing in his off-hours. Instead, it is Dr. Vincent Lam who is now editing the fiction he has written about his fictional character’s fictional families — a clan, and a background, quite like his own. Physician, meet thyself.
Charles Foran will publish his ninth book, a biography of Mordecai Richler, in September.
Graham Roumieu wrote and illustrated the 2008 comic novel Cat and Gnome.
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YourNetBizJanuary 22, 2010 12:12 EST

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