Interior Chinatown
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Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - NATIONAL BOK AWARD WINER One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire. --The Washington Post From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration--Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition. --The New York Times Book ReviewHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional World, written by Charles Yu, was chosen one of Time magazine's top books of the year. He was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Prize and awarded the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Playboy, and Slate, among others. Yu, his wife Michelle, and their two daughters live in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307907196 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307907198 |
| Title | Interior Chinatown |
| Author | Charles Yu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2020-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Award 2020 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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