A razor-sharp, blackly funny and bitingly satirical novel about ambition, appropriation and the publishing industry — from R.F. Kuang, bestselling author of Babel.
Athena Liu is a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. So when June witnesses Athena die in a freak accident, she seizes the chance to remake her own life — by stealing Athena's just-finished manuscript and passing it off as her own. So what if it means adopting a new, racially ambiguous identity? So what if a social-media scandal is brewing that threatens to expose her?
As June's lies mount and her stolen success starts to crumble, the question becomes: how far will she go to keep what she believes she deserves? Provocative, addictive and uncomfortably funny, Yellowface is a sharp skewering of racism, privilege and the stories we tell ourselves.
One hell of a story — it's just not hers to tell.
Paperback · Contemporary fiction / satire · In stock at Book Tanks, shipped across Malaysia.
Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
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