Yellowface

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

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year

‘Propulsive’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Razor-sharp’ TIME

‘A riot’ PANDORA SYKES

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When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.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

‘A riot’ PANDORA SYKES

‘Propulsive’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Razor-sharp’ TIME

‘Darkly comic’ GQ

‘A wild ride’ STYLIST

‘Hard to put down, harder to forget’ STEPHEN KING

‘Incisive and compelling’ JENNIFER SAINT

‘Unforgettable’ WOMAN & HOME

‘Intriguing’ ELLE

‘Gripping’ THE TIMES

‘A must-read’ THE INDEPENDENT

‘Utterly diverting’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Pacy and provocative’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘Blistering’ SCOTSMAN

‘A hugely entertaining account of a brazen literary heist’ OBSERVER

‘Smart, satirical, nuanced… addictively entertaining’ i NEWS

‘Fast, furious, twisty, witty, page-turning… brilliant’ SINEAD MORIARTY

‘A wicked little satire of publishing, racial politics and icky internet culture’ THE TIMES

‘Sure to keep you wanting more’ HUFFINGTON POST

‘A spiky, snarky, shady, smart, sinister take on white privilege’ NIKKI MAY

‘Incredibly, brilliantly entertaining… What a treat’ CHARLOTTE PHILBY

‘Remarkable and incendiary’ WIZ WHARTON

‘A firecracker’ i PAPER

‘Well-observed and alarmingly convincing’ DAILY MAIL

‘Scathing, spiky and full of laugh-out-loud moments’ GLAMOUR

‘Transfixing’ ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS

‘Deeply, darkly hilarious’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘Gripping, fast-paced… You’ll read it in one sitting’ TOWN AND COUNTRY

‘A funny, engrossing read about what people do when they reckon they can get away with it’ ERIN KELLY

‘Sharp and funny… a superb insight into the publishing world’ PRIMA

‘Fiercely satirical’ BEST

‘Will leave readers reeling’ MONOCLE

‘Tackles cancel culture and cultural appropriation with razor-sharp wit’ LOUISE O’NEILL

‘A darkly satirical thriller about greed, truth, identity, and art’ PENG SHEPHERD

‘Timely… sure to be one you can’t put down’ GAL-DEM

‘Satirical and humorous’ COSMOPOLITAN

‘I was gasping out loud… Rebecca is a literary force to be reckoned with’ GEORGINA LAWTON

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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