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C'est une histoire magistrale racontée par la mauvaise personne.
June Hayward et Athena Liu ont étudié ensemble à Yale, ont déménagé à Washington après avoir obtenu leur diplôme et sont toutes les deux écrivaines, mais les similitudes s'arrêtent là. Athena est une étoile montante de la littérature, et June n'est personne. Après tout, qui s'intéresse de nos jours aux histoires d'une fille blanche aussi banale qu'elle ?
Lorsqu'elle assiste à la mort d'Athena dans un accident invraisemblable, June agit donc sans réfléchir et vole le manuscrit que son amie et rivale vient de terminer – un roman sur les contributions méconnues du corps des travailleurs chinois pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Et si June corrigeait le récit et l'envoyait à son agent comme s'il s'agissait de son propre travail ? Et si elle adoptait le nom de Juniper Song et jouait sur l'ambiguité de son origine ethnique ? Quelle qu'en soit l'autrice, ce morceau d'histoire ne mérite-t-il pas d'être raconté ?
Mais June ne peut échapper à l'ombre d'Athena, et des révélations menacent de faire s'écrouler son succès volé. Jusqu'où sera-t-elle prête à aller pour protéger son secret ?
Afficher en entierWhat's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times 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 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.
Afficher en entierThe new book from the no. 1 New York Times and no. 2 Sunday Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang
One of TIME’s most anticipated books of 2023
‘Razor-sharp’ TIME
‘A remarkable and incendiary novel’ WIZ WHARTON
‘Incredibly, brilliantly entertaining… What a treat’ CHARLOTTE PHILBY
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody.
White lies
When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song.
Dark humour
But as evidence threatens Juniper’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.
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