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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.

'Propulsive' SUNDAY TIMES

'Razor-sharp' TIME

'Blistering' SCOTSMAN

'I guarantee it will stay with you' AFUA HIRSCH

'Strikingly topical' GUARDIAN

'Scathing, spiky, and full of laugh-out-loud moments' GLAMOUR

'A rollicking good read' WOMAN'S WEEKLY

'Sharp and funny' PRIMA

'Wickedly funny' EVENING STANDARD

'A firecracker of a book' i PAPER

'A riot' PANDORA SYKES

'Darkly hilarious' MARIE CLAIRE

'Uncomfortable and addictive... a must-read' INDEPENDENT

'Tackles cancel culture and cultural appropriation with razor-sharp wit' LOUISE O'NEILL

'A clever, pacy tale' SARA PASCOE

'Tense, modern... a brilliant exploration of the literary world' AISLING BEA

'Darkly comic' GQ

'A wild ride' STYLIST

'A wicked little satire of publishing, racial politics and icky internet culture' THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads

'Utterly diverting' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Unforgettable' WOMAN & HOME

'A spiky, snarky, shady, smart, sinister take on white privilege' NIKKI MAY

'Incisive and compelling... sweeps the reader up on a thrilling ride, but leaves us thinking about the questions raised for days' JENNIFER SAINT

'This acute, fast-paced thriller will have literary insiders nodding in recognition and outsiders gasping in shock' THE BOOKSELLER

'Not since Martin Amis's The Information has the venality, self-regard and absurdity of the writing life been so gloriously skewered' THE CRITIC

'Once you start, you won't be able to put it down' HEAT

'Well-observed and alarmingly convincing' DAILY MAIL

'Remarkable and incendiary' WIZ WHARTON

'A dark, engrossing page-turner' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING