Author
R. F. Kuang
Rebecca F. Kuang is the American-Chinese novelist behind Yellowface (2023), Babel (2022, Nebula and Locus Awards), and the Poppy War trilogy (2018-2020). Kuang holds graduate degrees in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and Oxford and is one of the defining contemporary speculative-and-literary fiction writers of her generation.
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2
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Years active
2022-2023
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Our reviews of R. F. Kuang's work
Babel
by R. F. Kuang
Babel by R. F. Kuang 2022 review. An alternate 1830s Oxford where the British Empire is powered by silver bars enchanted with the lost meaning between translated words. Nebula and Locus Award winner.
Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 2023 review. A struggling white novelist witnesses the accidental death of her successful Asian-American novelist friend and steals her unfinished manuscript. Kuang's contemporary satirical novel about race and publishing.
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Babel by R. F. Kuang 2022 review. An alternate 1830s Oxford where the British Empire is powered by silver bars enchanted with the lost meaning between translated words. Nebula and Locus Award winner.
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 2023 review. A struggling white novelist witnesses the accidental death of her successful Asian-American novelist friend and steals her unfinished manuscript. Kuang's contemporary satirical novel about race and publishing.