Yellowface

New York Times and no. 2 Sunday Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang ''A riot'' PANDORA SYKES ''Razor-sharp'' TIME ''A wild ride'' STYLIST ''Darkly comic'' GQ ''Satirical and humorous'' COSMOPOLITAN 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 White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.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.

Vorwort

The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Summer 2023's most anticipated new thriller from author R.F. Kuang

Autorentext

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.

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The Number One Global Sensation*Foyle's Fiction Book of the YearAmazon Book of the YearShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year*

Zusammenfassung

The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling book from literary sensation R.F. Kuang

'A riot' PANDORA SYKES

'Propulsive' SUNDAY TIMES

'Razor-sharp' TIME

'A wild ride' STYLIST

'Darkly comic' GQ

'Hard to put down, harder to forget' STEPHEN KING

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When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.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