Böcker av Charles Yu

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020"By turns hilarious and flat-out heart-breaking, Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown is a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel."-Roxanne Gay, head judge

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.

A time machine repairman becomes trapped in a time loop of his own making: Douglas Adams collides with Douglas Coupland'Charles Yu is a tremendously clever writer, and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is marvellously written, sweetly geeky, good clean time-bending fun.' AUDREY NIFFENEGGER