Yellowface

Livre relié, 350 pages

Langue : English

Publié 24 septembre 2023 par HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN :
978-0-00-853277-2
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Goodreads:
59357120

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What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R. F. Kuang.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So …

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Sujets

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary
  • Mystery
  • Thriller
  • Asian Literature