abstract
| - The Fault in Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. On his Tumblr blog and his YouTube blog, Green stated that "the title is inspired by a famous line from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (Act 1, scene 2). The nobleman Cassius says to Brutus, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.' In January 2012, the film rights to the book were acquired by Fox 2000. The novel was later adapted into a film directed by Josh Boone and starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi. That film was released in 2014 to critical acclaims.
|