Inside Chinatown

Interior Chinatown

⚡️ After 20 years, a Chinese American once again won the National Book Award for Fiction!
⚡️New York Times Top Ten Novelists of the Year⚡️Time, Washington Post, and Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year⚡️ Goodreads rating: 51,735, 7,567 reviews! Amazon rating: 4.2 by 5,260 people
🎬 The eponymous series "Inside Chinatown" is coming to HULU
🎬A masterpiece from the screenwriter of Westworld and Journey to the West ABC ⚡️ "An ambitious and delicious Hollywood satire"
⚡️ The protagonist is trapped in the body of an extra, a perpetual stranger in life⚡️ Can you change it? Can you be the one to truly break the barriers?
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Willis Wu, an "ordinary Asian man," a second-generation immigrant from Chinatown, dreams of becoming a kung fu superstar like Bruce Lee. Every day, he walks out of his one-room tenement apartment and into the Golden Palace Hotel, where he plays a minor role in a crime thriller called "Black and White," filming. From humble beginnings as a "courier," a "silent henchman," and a "struggling immigrant," he climbs the career ladder, finally reaching his dream role: the "kung fu master." But as the hidden history of Chinatown, the disappearance of his older brother, and the buried past of his parents' generation gradually surface, he's suddenly jarred from his dream of merging into "Black and White" and thrust into a century-long trial by race... Will the outcome be extraordinary this time?
"Interior Chinatown," recognized for its "by turns hilarious, by turns heartbreaking" and "bright, bold, and powerful" writing, won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for France's Medici Prize for Foreign Fiction. Beginning with the Golden Palace Hotel, where the line between reality and screenplay blurs in the vein of "Inception," You Chaokai unfolds a series of historical dramas, family dramas, detective stories, romances, children's dramas, and courtroom dramas. Ultimately, this is a delightfully entertaining and creative experimental play, seamlessly blending its hilarious and captivating plot with its avant-garde and daring writing. The New York Times hailed it as a work of "unlimited talent and ambition."
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【Media Recommendation】
A George Saunders-style alternative reality. More than that, it's an allegory.
The meticulously crafted details create a complete universe that feels within reach.
—Pete Hsu, Los Angeles Review of Books
Jonathan Lethem's wit and cunning, Kurt Vonnegut's helpless sadness, Philip K. Dick's paranoid skepticism of consumer culture. You Chaokai's voice, sensibility, and approach are unique, especially the way he wrings humor and pathos from concise syntax and seemingly passive protagonists.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Examining the stories of Asian Americans who are "always strangers" and "never able to fit in with black and white" in the United States.
—The New Yorker
Yu Chaokai's "Inside Chinatown" is a bright, bold, and powerful novel, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Written as a loosely bounded screenplay, it ingeniously shines the spotlight on an ordinary man who struggles to achieve a respectable role in his own story, facing obstacles in a world characterized by racism and rigid hierarchy.
——2020 National Book Award Jury Speech
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【Editor's Recommendation】
⭐️ Novel or screenplay? The second-person narrative permeates the entire story, creating a captivating story within a story. ⭐️ Two hundred years on, why are we still outsiders? — The author explains that the 2016 election of Donald Trump as US President "catalyzed" her decision to write about race. Upon publication, the book resonated strongly in the US, and its print run was in great demand.
"Your Honor, I am guilty."
You grew up in an Eastern city in the Western world, wandering between black and white. You died again and again, exhausting your life, and finally reached the top of the mountain and became a Hollywood kung fu superstar.
Just when you were at the peak of your career, achieving success and fame, everything took a sudden turn for the worse. You surrendered and voluntarily stood in the dock at the Supreme Court. Your lawyer defended you, saying, "My client has killed countless Asians."
What exactly happened to you?
Come on, take us inside Chinatown.

2023-05-01

广西师范大学出版社

Shanghai Beibet

263

9787559858146