Yellowface -

R.F. Kuang

William Morrow & Company

2023

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 0063250837

What's the harm in a pseudonym? 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 the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody 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 to the British and French war efforts 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 takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

Resenhas (4693)

5 (Perfeito)

Eu tô muito chocado com o que eu acabei de ler, nem sei por onde começar essa resenha. Vou agradecer primeiramente a Carol Moreira pela indicação e pqp que livro foda, que escrita maravilhosa e com certeza é um dos favoritos do ano.

Amei a crítica ao mercado literário e as editoras. Bom, a June é uma das piores protagonistas que já li, piores no sentido de podre sabe, nossa cada página que lia me sentia mal em saber o que ela pensava e agia. O pior de tudo é saber que existe pessoas iguais a ela.

Todo apagamento histórico e pessoal que ela fez ao roubar o manuscrito da Athena me deixou muito desconfortável, o livro trata de apropriação cultural de um forma tão magnífica, que ele não precisa te explicar o que significa apenas o seu desconforto com tudo que está acontecendo vira uma chave para o entendimento.