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Literatura Obyczajowa
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 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 grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
© 2023 HarperAudio (Audiobook): 9780063250864
Data wydania
Audiobook: 16 maja 2023
4.1
Literatura Obyczajowa
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 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 grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
© 2023 HarperAudio (Audiobook): 9780063250864
Data wydania
Audiobook: 16 maja 2023
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Natalia
20 maj 2023
Tego mi brakowało po Bablu’ i wojnach makowych: bym mogła przekonać się, że Kuang stać także na ironiczny dystans. A ów tutaj dominuje.Bo, nawet jeśli nie mamy wątpliwości, że narratorka pierwszoosobowa jest czarnym charakterem i działa zgodnie z zasadą: „napluj świni w oczy, a ona ci powie, że deszcz pada”, to jednak nie wszystko [a zasadniczo wiele rzeczy z tego] co mówi, jak widzi i odczuwa jest godne potępienia, czy nieprawdziwe.Z taką gorzką prawdą o szalenie zagmatwanym świecie, w którym żyjemy, przyjdzie nam się zmierzyć.Nikła jest natomiast szansa na to, że za zbrodnię czeka kara… raczej mamy tu do czynienia z sytuacją ze „Schodów” Camposa, a winą za to nie tylko należy obarczać media…Ciekawa opowieść o autorstwie w ogóle i o autorstwie w naszych czasach.Znów bardzo intertekstualna.I tak w ogóle, to chętnie czytałabym dalej, na przykład te książki pisane i plagiowane w powieści :)
Julia
8 mar 2024
Bardzo mi się podobał ten powolny ukłon w stronę szaleństwa
Mona
6 lis 2023
Nie wiem kogo lubię, a kogo nie lubię w tej książce. Mam mętlik, emocjonalnie jestem rozbita, czy to było zakończenie ? Książka jest dobra.
Katia
4 cze 2023
Oby więcej takich książek ❤️ Kocham taką moralną dwuznaczność ❤️ Proszę słuchać!
Marta
15 lis 2023
Świetna!
.kora
19 wrz 2023
I don't know how I feel about this bookNo idea
Adrianna
27 gru 2023
Well written, well read. Loved it ;)
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