Yellowface

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.

‘Propulsive’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Razor-sharp’ TIME‘Blistering’ SCOTSMAN‘I guarantee it will stay with you’ AFUA HIRSCH‘Strikingly topical’ GUARDIAN‘Scathing, spiky, and full of laugh-out-loud moments’ GLAMOUR‘A rollicking good read’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY‘Sharp and funny’ PRIMA‘Wickedly funny’ EVENING STANDARD‘A firecracker of a book’ i PAPER‘A riot’ PANDORA SYKES‘Darkly hilarious’ MARIE CLAIRE‘Uncomfortable and addictive… a must-read’ INDEPENDENT‘Tackles cancel culture and cultural appropriation with razor-sharp wit’ LOUISE O’NEILL‘A clever, pacy tale’ SARA PASCOE'Tense, modern… a brilliant exploration of the literary world' AISLING BEA‘Darkly comic’ GQ‘A wild ride’ STYLIST‘A wicked little satire of publishing, racial politics and icky internet culture’ THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads‘Utterly diverting’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Unforgettable’ WOMAN & HOME'Bright and witty and sly… fabulous' RUSSELL T DAVIES‘A spiky, snarky, shady, smart, sinister take on white privilege’ NIKKI MAY‘Incisive and compelling… sweeps the reader up on a thrilling ride, but leaves us thinking about the questions raised for days’ JENNIFER SAINT‘This acute, fast-paced thriller will have literary insiders nodding in recognition and outsiders gasping in shock’ THE BOOKSELLER‘Not since Martin Amis’s The Information has the venality, self-regard and absurdity of the writing life been so gloriously skewered’ THE CRITIC‘Once you start, you won’t be able to put it down’ HEAT‘Well-observed and alarmingly convincing’ DAILY MAIL'Remarkable and incendiary' WIZ WHARTON'A dark, engrossing page-turner’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

1. 1/5

   Sofie

   läste den svenska utgåvan men gick inte att lämna recension där. förstod iallafall inte alls hypen med denna boken. hade hört så mycket bra om den innan o hade därför höga förväntningar som den inte alls levde upp till. endast seg o tråkig. skriven på ett väldigt litterärt sätt vilket jag hade svårt att komma in i ordentligt.

   Sofie

   14 augusti 2025
2. 1/5

   Dull, predictable and juvenile

   Or maybe I'm just too old for this book? It had such good reviews, and I couldn't believe how utterly lacking it is in any real characterisation, motivation or plotting. And the language was basic.

   Susan

   30 mars 2025