Yellowface

· HarperCollins UK
4.2
111 reviews
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The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle’s Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 – British Book Awards*

‘Addictive’ Grazia

‘Hugely entertaining’ Observer

‘Provocative’ Mail on Sunday

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.

IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.

When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity... and takes it.

So what if it means stealing Athena’s final manuscript?

So what if it means ‘borrowing’ her identity?

And so what if the first lie is only the beginning...

Finally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose her...

What happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.

‘The book that everyone is talking about’ Glamour

‘Ingenious, astute, hugely entertaining’ David Nicholls

‘Breathtakingly clever on jealousy, talent, success, and who gets to tell which story’ Elizabeth Day

‘Hard to put down. Harder to forget’ Stephen King

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

Ratings and reviews

4.2
111 reviews
Nebula Castelino
25 May 2023
These days there are few books that not only call upon readers to reflect but touch upon grey areas about the unspoken conditions of fiction in the context of culture, the undercurrent of jealousy, racism and xenophobia. The author tackles this with compelling prose and dark humour with utterly flawed characters. The ending was simply apt. Thank you to NetGalley & HarperCollins Australia for giving me an ARC. This honest review is left voluntary.
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Yuichi Forever
23 December 2023
It feels like it could be shorter and probably would have the same impact, as the story only gets intense from chapter 20 to 24. But I can't help but love the slow-burned road Rebecca took for this. Especially the occasional terror, the out of nowhere moments that never fails to caught me off guard.
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Quinn Paul
4 June 2024
the book is a compelling read that challenges readers to think critically about the stories they consume and the systems that shape those narratives.
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About the author

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Yellowface, Babel: An Arcane History and the Poppy War trilogy. 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. Her next novel is Katabasis.

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