Interior Chinatown de Charles Yu

Date de parution : 11.2020
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 288
Résumé : ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER •  NPR  • TIME • THE WASHINGTON POST  • THE ATLANTIC  •  VANITY FAIR  •  VULTURE  •  THRILLIST  • SHELF AWARENESS • SOUTHERN LIVING  • INSIDEHOOK  •  AMAZON  • KIRKUS REVIEWS  • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY  • THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY “[A] sharply observed, darkly humorous evocation of the Asian American experience.”  — Entertainment Weekly “Satire at its best, a shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood . . . presented, perfectly, in the sharply hewed format of a screenplay. . . . Peeling back caricatures to paint vivid individual portraits, Yu eviscerates generalizations with the devastatingly specific.”  — Vanity Fair “Bold, even groundbreaking. . . . Interior Chinatown solders together mordant wit and melancholic whimsy to produce a moving exploration of race and assimilation.” — San Francisco Chronicle “ Interior Chinatown . . . recalls the humorous and heartfelt short stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark Leyner, and films like The Truman Show .” — The New York Times “An inventive satire about racial stereotyping.”  —Maureen Corrigan, NPR “Meticulously crafted. . . . Yu tells us about ourselves with his haunting depictions of the immigrant experience, familial relationships, and the abiding desire to break from the pressures of conformity and live an authentic life.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “Part novel, part screenplay, part screed, and part sociology, this National Book Award winner is always funny and pretty savage.” — Vulture “Yu has a devilish good time poking fun at the racially blinkered ways of Hollywood. . . . [ Interior Chinatown is] rollicking fun, and its reclamation of Asian American history, with all its attendant sorrows and hopes, holds out the possibility of a new, true story ahead.” — New York Journal of Books “Honest, funny, sad, and necessary satire.” — Thrillist “Like nothing you’ve read before—a moving and transportive work abounding with risks that pay off.” — InsideHook “Passionate and clever. . . . A caustic, absurd, and endearing exploration of Asian American stereotypes, police procedurals, and the immigrant experience.” — Shelf Awareness “A stunning novel about identity, race, societal expectations, and crippling anxiety told with humor and affection and a deep understanding of human nature.” — The Washington Independent Review of Books “Conflates history, sociology, and ethnography with the timeless evils of racism, sexism, and elitism in a multigenerational epic that’s both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary.” — Booklist (starred review)