Interior Chinatown: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2020

In Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu explores race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Winner of the National Book Award 2020 and the New York Times bestseller.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 05 November 2020
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Winner of the National Book Award 2020, The New York Times bestseller, and a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in Chinatown 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. 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 also the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 136 x 209 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787702578