Kevin Kwan (1) (1974–)
Autor de Crazy Rich Asians
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Sobre El Autor
Kevin Kwan was born in Singapore He attended the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where he graduated with a BA in Media Studies, after which he moved to Manhattan to attend Parsons School of Design in order to pursue a BFA in Photography. In New York, Kwan worked for Andy Warhol's Interview mostrar más Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, and Tibor Kalman's design firm M&Co. He soon became a novelist and is widely known for his satirical novels Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems. In 2018, Kwan made Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: photo: chrisyoung canadapress
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1974
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Singapore (birth)
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Singapore
- Lugares de residencia
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Educación
- University of Houston-Clear Lake (BA ∙ Media Studies)
Parsons School of Design - Agente
- Alexandra Machinist
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- Popularidad
- #2,167
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 430
- ISBNs
- 166
- Idiomas
- 16
- Favorito
- 3
Crazy Rich Asians is a satirical rom-com about the Asian rich elite by Singaporean author Kevin Kwan. When Nicholas Young decides to take his ABC (American Born Chinese) girlfriend Rachel Chu home to Singapore for his best friend’s wedding she is excited, and also puzzled that she knows so little about them. What Nick has failed to mention is that his family is ridiculously wealthy (not quite sure how this detail failed to emerge in a two year relationship) and that his mother Eleanor has no intentions of allowing him to marry this commoner. Rachel faces all the jealousy and pettiness that a group of women flying private jets and partying in paradise in Armani, Dior and Jimmy Choo’s can muster. They also uncover that she was in fact born in mainland China, and some salacious details about Rachel’s birth. Can Rachel and Nick survive all that is set against them to tear them apart?
In the meantime Nick’s cousin Astrid is dealing with her marriage to Michael falling apart, revealing the nasty underside to all this wealth. Although this book is an eye-roll a minute, with many of the characters being superficial, petty and money obsessed, I think this is Kwan’s point, and his satirical style puts this lifestyle under a microscope. There is a fierce undercurrent of class-consciousness and snobbery, between rich and poor, old money and new, and even between the Chinese abroad and those born in mainland China. Part of me wonders whether this is Kwan’s dig at the Western obsession with exoticism, in particular the suffering kind. With so many international books focused on poverty, war and hardship-trauma porn to some degree-maybe this is his portrayal of a totally different kind of life in Asia, and maybe challenges our preconceptions. If you can stomach the huge excesses of wealth and superficiality this is a fun and colourful ride. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I might have to.… (más)