Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

ISBN 10: 0008626367 / ISBN 13: 9780008626365

Published by Borough Press, 2023

About this Item

UK Hardback 1st Edition First Printing in brand new unread condition. Dustjacket as new. This is the Waterstone's Special Edition signed by the author and with printed page edges. As an extra, not supplied by the publisher, this book is now housed in a top quality yellow buckram slipcase with the author's name and title hot foil printed in black on the spine and side.

Seller Inventory # 590

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yellowface
• Publisher: Borough Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008626367
• ISBN 13: 9780008626365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 15.9W x 24H x 2.1D centimeters 15.9 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 2.1 centimeters depth
• Weight: 270 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.