Name: Yellowface
SKU: 54174791
Price: 19.33 EUR
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Author: R. F. Kuang

Type

Physical Book

Author

R. F. Kuang

Publisher

The Borough Press

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.5x16 cm

ISBN13

9780008532772

Yellowface

R. F. Kuang (Author) · The Borough Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Yellowface"

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 what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.

But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

R. F. Kuang

(Author)

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Chinese-American writer and translator, Rebecca F. Kuang was born in Guangzhou, China, on May 29, 1996. At the age of four, she moved to the United States with her parents.

Kuang studied History at Georgetown University, later specializing in Chinese Studies and Contemporary Chinese Studies at Cambridge and Oxford, and earning a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

As a writer, Kuang is known for her fantasy novels, which have earned her nominations for prestigious awards in the genre such as the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy. Her works include the Poppy War trilogy, Babel (Nebula Award 2022), and Yellow.

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