The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling book from literary sensation R.F. Kuang
‘A riot’ PANDORA SYKES
‘Razor-sharp’ TIME
‘A wild ride’ STYLIST
‘Darkly comic’ GQ
‘Satirical and humorous’ COSMOPOLITAN
‘Unforgettable’ WOMAN & HOME
Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.
White lies
When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.
Dark humour
But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
Deadly consequences…
What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.
R.F. Kuang’s book ‘Yellowface’ was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23
R.F. Kuang’s book ‘Yellowface’ was a #5 New York Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23
R.F. Kuang's book 'Babel' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 09-01-2023.
作者简介
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Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contem...
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. 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.
I study the Twitter feeds of Athena and her mutuals to see which community figures I should follow, which conversations I should be a part of. I retweet hot takes about bubble tea, MSG, BTS, and some drama series called The Untamed. I learn it's important to be anti-xxx(that's the xxx) but pro-xxx(I'm not terribly sure how that's different). I learn what “xxx” and “xxx” are and make sure I don’t inadvertently retweet support for either. I decry what’s happening in xxx. I Stand with xxx. I start gaining dozens more followers a day once I’ve started vocalizing on these matters, and when I notice that many of my followers are people of color or have things like #BLM and #FreePalestine in their bios, I know I’m on the right track. (查看原文)
Do you know what it’s like to pitch a book and be told they already have an Asian writer? That they can’t put out two minority stories in the same season? That Athena Liu already exists, so you’re redundant? This industry is built on silencing us, stomping us into the ground, and hurling money at white people to produce racist stereotypes of us. (查看原文)
坦诚说是一部很有画面感的悬疑故事，但唯一觉得拧巴和别扭的地方，是主人公作为偷书贼的塑造，虽然过程中我甚至都同情她并且想着「就让她赢了这一次吧」，但她的毫无悔恨依然显得过于不讨喜。立意上触及了种族问题、cancel 文化，跟书中苗子的场景几乎都一一对应上了，甚至连本书作者本人的 Ins 也跟书里描写的一模一样，又让人有一种巧妙的互文感。文本非常流畅，对于我这类视觉型读者非常友好，每个情景都能在脑海中...坦诚说是一部很有画面感的悬疑故事，但唯一觉得拧巴和别扭的地方，是主人公作为偷书贼的塑造，虽然过程中我甚至都同情她并且想着「就让她赢了这一次吧」，但她的毫无悔恨依然显得过于不讨喜。立意上触及了种族问题、cancel 文化，跟书中苗子的场景几乎都一一对应上了，甚至连本书作者本人的 Ins 也跟书里描写的一模一样，又让人有一种巧妙的互文感。文本非常流畅，对于我这类视觉型读者非常友好，每个情景都能在脑海中构建出画面，拿起来就停不下来一路读完。如果做影视化改编，拍成迷你剧应该也蛮好的。(展开)
近几年「亚裔」标签泛滥，所以 Yellowface 去年爆红时我还嗤之以鼻，结果刚读几页就打脸，故事引人入胜，十分好看，读完顿觉酣畅淋漓。虽则早早就已看穿结尾神秘幽灵的真实身份，却并不影响情节的曲折跌宕。 It's a real page-turner. 女主嫉妒朋友的写作天赋，并在其死后剽窃...
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This book is a page turner for sure. rfk is capable of crafting words, sentences and the overall pace is tightened enough for me to hold through the dragging chapter 18-20. Closing the book with some confusion though, the climax is relatively flat, the pl...
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坦诚说是一部很有画面感的悬疑故事，但唯一觉得拧巴和别扭的地方，是主人公作为偷书贼的塑造，虽然过程中我甚至都同情她并且想着「就让她赢了这一次吧」，但她的毫无悔恨依然显得过于不讨喜。立意上触及了种族问题、cancel 文化，跟书中苗子的场景几乎都一一对应上了，甚至连本书作者本人的 Ins 也跟书里描写的一模一样，又让人有一种巧妙的互文感。文本非常流畅，对于我这类视觉型读者非常友好，每个情景都能在脑海中... 坦诚说是一部很有画面感的悬疑故事，但唯一觉得拧巴和别扭的地方，是主人公作为偷书贼的塑造，虽然过程中我甚至都同情她并且想着「就让她赢了这一次吧」，但她的毫无悔恨依然显得过于不讨喜。立意上触及了种族问题、cancel 文化，跟书中苗子的场景几乎都一一对应上了，甚至连本书作者本人的 Ins 也跟书里描写的一模一样，又让人有一种巧妙的互文感。文本非常流畅，对于我这类视觉型读者非常友好，每个情景都能在脑海中构建出画面，拿起来就停不下来一路读完。如果做影视化改编，拍成迷你剧应该也蛮好的。 (展开)