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Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.

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The Number One Global SensationFoyle's Fiction Book of the YearAmazon Book of the YearShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the YearFiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards**'Addictive' Grazia**

'Hugely entertaining' Observer

'Provocative' Mail on Sunday

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.

IT'S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.

When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity... and takes it.

So what if it means stealing Athena's final manuscript?

So what if it means 'borrowing' her identity?

And so what if the first lie is only the beginning...

Finally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose her...

What happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.

'The book that everyone is talking about' Glamour

'Ingenious, astute, hugely entertaining' David Nicholls

'Breathtakingly clever on jealousy, talent, success, and who gets to tell which story' Elizabeth Day

'Hard to put down. Harder to forget' Stephen King

R.F. Kuang's book Yellowfacewas a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23

R.F. Kuang's book Yellowfacewas a #5 New York Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23

Zusammenfassung
The Number One Global SensationFoyle's Fiction Book of the YearAmazon Book of the YearShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards