Yellowface A Reese's Book Club Pick

R F Kuang

ISBN 10: 0063250853 / ISBN 13: 9780063250857

Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, 2025

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Yellowface is R. F. Kuang's darkly comic literary thriller about June Hayward, a struggling white author who steals the finished manuscript of her far more celebrated peer, Athena Liu, immediately after witnessing Athena's accidental death. June edits the novel - an experimental work about the overlooked contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I - and submits it to her agent as her own, rebranding herself along the way as the ethnically ambiguous Juniper Song. The book becomes a sensation. Then the cracks begin to show. Kuang, the New York Times bestselling author of Babel, writes the entire novel in June's voice: immediate, self-justifying, and deeply unreliable. The result is a satire of the publishing industry and literary culture that is also a genuine thriller, examining cultural appropriation, racism, and the social-media dynamics that can both build and destroy a public persona. Stephen King called it "hard to put down, harder to forget." Published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2025, the book runs to 352 pages and also includes an excerpt from Kuang's follow-up novel, Katabasis. A Reese's Book Club selection.

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• Titolo: Yellowface A Reese's Book Club Pick
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0063250853
• ISBN 13: 9780063250857
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • EXCERPT TO NEW NOVEL KATABASIS!

“Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King

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. 

Informazioni sull'autore

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, 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, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.