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kobvindex_ZLB34227386
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9780804120791
Series Statement:
Crazy Rich Asians
Content:
" Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society,Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines,and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should--and should not--marry. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet,a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money,between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese,and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich."
Content:
Biographisches: " Kevin Kwan was born and raised in Singapore. He currently lives in Manhattan. Crazy Rich Asians is his first novel." Rezension(2): "Janet Maslin, The New York Times : A dizzily shopaholic comedy of crass manners . Crazy Rich Asians offers refreshing nouveau voyeurism to readers who long ago burned out on American and English aspirational fantasies. Mr. Kwan either knows, or does a good job of pretending to know, how the very rich of Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai show off their lucre . Hilarious . This book name-drops about many different Asian cultures and mixes rude slang from Malay and the Cantonese and Hokkien dialects of Chinese . Mr. Kwan makes the most of them . A grand tour of a humorously grandiose and showoffy world. Mr. Kwan knows how to deliver guilty pleasures. He keeps the repartee nicely outrageous, the excess wretched and the details wickedly delectable." Rezension(3): "Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly :Deliciously decadent . Rachel, an American-born Chinese (ABC), has no idea what to expect when she visits Singapore to meet her boyfriend Nick's multibillionaire family. There, she discovers mind-blowing opulence-- next season's couture, palatial properties, million-dollar shopping sprees--and the over-the-top bad behavior that comes with it . This 48-karat beach read is crazy fun." Rezension(4): "People :There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich . A Pride and Prejudice -like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his ancestor-obsessed family, the book hilariously skewers imperial splendor and the conniving antics of the Asians jet set." Rezension(5): " The New York Times Beach Reading Roundup:When Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians has a mother in Singapore telling her girls to finish everything on their plates because 'there are children starving in America,' it's O.K. to get the joke. There's no need to dwell on what it really means. Crazy Rich Asians is this summer's 'Bergdorf Blondes,' over-the-top funny and a novelty to boot. Mr. Kwan delivers nonstop hoots about a whole new breed of rich, vulgar, brand-name-dropping conspicuous consumers, with its own delicacies, curses, vices, stereotypes ('I hope she's not one of those Taiwanese tornadoes!') and acronyms. According to Mr. Kwan, this crowd uses U.B.C., as the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, is known, to mean 'University of a Billion Chinese.' How rich and vulgar are the Anglophile Asians of this debut novel? Rich enough to throw a diamond of more than 30 carats into a snowdrift and not look for it. So vulgar that a Cirque du Soleil troupe has to show up to convey that things have gotten crass. So steeped in wretched excess that one man boasts about the precise temperature his climate-controlled shoe closet should be." Rezension(6): "Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal :Mr. Kwan's delightfully soapy debut, [is] set in the glamorous beau monde of Singapore--'the Switzerland of Asia'--with excursions to Paris, Hong Kong and a private Indonesian island . It's through Rachel, the wide-eyed interloper, that we view the extravagances of this 'secretive, rarefied circle of families .' Mr. Kwan's book eats its chiffon cake and has it too, simultaneously tut-tutting many of its characters for their vapid materialism while reveling in the milieu's sybaritic excess . Mr. Kwan skillfully engineers a good-natured story in which Rachel must overcome the schemes of Nicholas's disapproving mother." Rezension(7): "Michael Carl, VanityFair.com: Crazy Rich Asians is like Dynasty on steroids with more private jets, bigger houses, and a lot more money. It is the very definition of a beach read. I finished it over a weekend and by the end was longing to see the ridiculously extravagant and over-the-top world that Mr. Kwan had created I predict this will be the 50 Shades of Grey of this summer." Rezension(8): "Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News : Crazy Rich Asians is both a deliciously satiric read and a Fodor's of sorts to the world of Singapore's fabulously monied, both new and old." Rezension(9): "Christine Mazur, Winnipeg Free Press :Kwan is a modern-day Jane Austen, never mind gender or ethnicity, because he is writing about the same human pride and prejudices that consumed Austen 200 years ago. In this comedy of manners about star-crossed lovers fighting against class dis" Rezension(10): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 15, 2013 Kwan’s debut novel is a fun, over-the-top romp through the unbelievable world of the Asian jet set, where anything from this season is already passé"
Language:
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Author information:
Kwan, Kevin
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