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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu


  • Europa Editions (Faber)
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet 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.

ISBN 9781787702578 | E | TPB
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Publisher Europa Editions (Faber)
ISBN 9781787702578
Publication date November 2020
Edition Trade Pb
Dimensions mm
Pages 288
Language(s) Eng. ed.
extra information WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play?by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet 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 most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.

Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.