Yellowface de R. F. Kuang

Date de parution : 05.2023
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 336
Résumé : INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “Hard to put down, harder to forget.” —  Stephen King, #1  New York Times  bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… 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, the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of Babel .   Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who 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 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 d...