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10 mag 2021 · Ahead of its publication — and following a highly competitive bidding war — Netflix has snapped up TV rights to Grace Li’s novel, Portrait of a Thief.
Portrait of a Thief is the 2022 debut novel by Chinese American author Grace D. Li. It is on the New York Times Best Seller list and named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022. Netflix acquired the rights to the book, and it is in development as a television series.
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.
25 giu 2015 · Portrait of a Thief: Directed by Mini Kerti. With Alice Braga, Vladimir Brichta, Pedro Brício, Caio Blat. Based on the writings of João do Rio, tells the tale of a pickpocket who assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Mini Kerti
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3 ago 2023 · Portrait of a Thief centers around Will Chen, a senior art history major at Harvard who is approached by a mysterious Chinese benefactor with a job offer: steal back valuable Chinese art that had been looted from Beijing centuries earlier.
Rio de Janeiro, beginning of the 20th century. This is the place and time where in improbable affair between Dr. Antônio, a lonely thief that stays at the finest hotels in Rio to steal it's guests by nightfall. And Eva, a beautiful woman that gave up her talent for a unhappy marriage.
10 apr 2022 · It inspired her to write her debut novel Portrait of a Thief (out now) about a group of Chinese American college students who pull off a series of heists.
