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Bookmark or Share- About - Charles YuCHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Le Prix Médicis étranger, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
- Third Class Superhero | Charles YuW ith deadpan humor and originality, Charles Yu spins Kafkaesque tales of modern identity and insecurity in this whip-smart debut. In 401(k), a couple living in the Luxury Car Commercial subdivision are disappointed when their exotic vacation turns into a Life Insurance/Asset Management pitch.
- Charles YuABOUT CHARLES YU. “I don’t know if there’s a better story-bending talent at work than Charles Yu, since the rise of George Saunders.”. –Alan Cheuse, NPR. “Yu is a superhero of rendering human consciousness and emotion in the language of engineering and science.”. — The New York Times Book Review.
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu“Science and metaphor get nice and cozy in Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. The novel joins the likes of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story and Jillian Weise’s The Colony, fiction that borrows the tropes of sci-fi to tell high-tech self-actualization narratives.”
- Interior Chinatown | Charles YuPlayful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes–Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. PRAISE FOR INTERIOR CHINATOWN Named a Most Anticipated Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, The A.V. Club, Lit Hub, Woman’s Day, The Rumpus, Thrillist, and more.
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