From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO an...
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too. . . but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Or is it?
After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today's America.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
作者简介
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CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for ...
CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Wired. His next novel, INTERIOR CHINATOWN, will be published by Pantheon in January 2020.
2020年11月25日
Act I: Generic Asian Man, 第7页
WILLIS WU (ASIAN) ACTOR Skills:
Kung Fu (Moderate Proficiency)
Fluent in Accented English
Able to do Face of Great Shame on command (查看原文)
First, you have to work your way up. Starting from the bottom, it goes: 5. Background Oriental Male 4. Dead Asian Man 3. Generic Asian Man Number Three/Delivery Guy 2. Generic Asian Man Number Two/Waiter 1. Generic Asian Man Number One (查看原文)
"a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun re..."a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun read. "There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them." ---you bet (展开)
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4 有用 萨尔维亚之蓝 2021-02-15 02:14:59
虽然是小说，但感到作者从头至尾都在呐喊：老子已经这么优秀了，可文可武，各科全A，当得了演员，考得进法学院，到底还要被美国主流社会内卷到什么时候啊？什么时候才能轮到老子有点存在感啊？就因为我是亚裔嘛！
7 有用 花岛仙藏 2020-11-21 20:40:34
"a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun re... "a stage-set China that does not exist". I would give it a 9 if it's written in the '70s, now it's a meagre 7. Not sincere or sarcastic or self-mocking enough, still eager-to-please. But it's a fun read. "There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them." ---you bet (展开)
6 有用 Eudaimonia 2020-09-03 19:55:10
几周前听完的。伪剧本和主角一直出戏独白的写法很魔幻，Generic Asian Man/Kung Fu Guy和整个performing Asianness的视角都有点心酸，是个很有趣的尝试。
2 有用 不知在哪的翠翠 2023-01-08 02:16:34 美国
小说的写法颇具新意，伪剧本的形式描述一位亚裔美国男人的边缘故事，幽默中带点辛酸。但，通篇读完，总觉得这本书更像是个半成品，诸多细节亟待扩充。不知道hulu改编的剧集能不能给人惊喜了。
1 有用 dw 2024-01-05 10:55:53 加拿大
剧本的形式很有趣