CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Wired. His next novel, INTERIOR CHINATOWN, will be published by Pantheon in January 2020.
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes 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 a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. 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 highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. 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, and what that means for him, in today's America.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
發表於2024-12-25
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圖書標籤: 華人 英文 美國 移民 文學 華人文學 NOVEL DIASPORA
四星半 托劇本的形式以戲謔的口吻講亞裔生活 關於亞裔為何感到自己無法參與主流社會的種族對話寫得太直白太精闢瞭 一下寫清楚瞭最近許多我不知道如何有條理地錶達的情緒 "because of all of this you feel on some level that you maybe can't even quite verbalize [...] that the validity and volume of your complaints must be calibrated appropriately" 總被書中的傢庭場景打動 情感衝擊高於預期的閱讀體驗!
評分僞劇本式的結構讓人眼前一亮,但是作者過於樸實簡單的語句反而透露著憂傷 — 唐人街是多少人來到一個新的國服第一個嚮往/當作傢的地方,然而又有多少人被這個地方給囚禁著。情感衝擊很大。好看!
評分講述故事的方法挺特殊的。語言也不錯,錶達清晰有力。
評分四星半 托劇本的形式以戲謔的口吻講亞裔生活 關於亞裔為何感到自己無法參與主流社會的種族對話寫得太直白太精闢瞭 一下寫清楚瞭最近許多我不知道如何有條理地錶達的情緒 "because of all of this you feel on some level that you maybe can't even quite verbalize [...] that the validity and volume of your complaints must be calibrated appropriately" 總被書中的傢庭場景打動 情感衝擊高於預期的閱讀體驗!
評分講述故事的方法挺特殊的。語言也不錯,錶達清晰有力。
Interior Chinatown 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載