Loopy Rich Asians

Loopy Rich Asians

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Publication Yr: 2014 Layout: Paperback
Language: English ISBN:

9780345803788

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9780345803788

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Synopsis
“Loopy Rich Asians” is the outrageously funny debut current about three trim-smartly off, pedigreed Chinese households and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the inheritor to 1 of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings house his ABC (American-born Chinese) lady friend to the wedding ceremony of the season.When Rachel Chu agrees to use the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Younger, she envisions a humble family house, long drives to detect the island, and quality time with the person she’s going to also in the end marry. What she doesn’t know is that Slash’s family house occurs to survey like a palace, that she’ll walk in extra deepest planes than vehicles, and that with one of Asia’s most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel will also as smartly have a target on her again. Initiated staunch into a global of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Lady of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Slash’s ambitious mother, a girl who has very strong emotions about who her son could soundless–and could not–marry. Uproarious, addictive, and crammed with jaw-shedding opulence, “Loopy Rich Asians” is an insider’s survey at the Asian JetSet; a ultimate depiction of the clash between passe cash and contemporary cash; between Foreign Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous current about what it solution to be younger, in cherish, and gloriously, “crazily” smartly off. The acclaimed world bestseller (“A dizzily shopaholic comedy.” — The Contemporary York Cases ) soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan! When Contemporary Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to use the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Younger, she envisions a humble family house and quality time with the person she hopes to marry. However Slash has failed to present his lady friend just a few key info. One, that his childhood house appears as if a palace; two, that he grew up riding in extra deepest planes than vehicles; and three, that he ultimate occurs to be the country’s most eligible bachelor. On Slash’s arm, Rachel could as smartly have a target on her again the second she steps off the airplane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns staunch into a jam direction of passe cash, contemporary cash, nosy kin, and scheming social climbers. When Contemporary Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to use the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Younger, she envisions a humble family house and quality time with the person she hopes to marry. However Slash has failed to present his lady friend just a few key info. One, that his childhood house appears as if a palace; two, that he grew up riding in extra deepest planes than vehicles; and three, that he ultimate occurs to be the country’s most eligible bachelor. On Slash’s arm, Rachel could as smartly have a target on her again the second she steps off the airplane, and soon, her relaxed vacation turns staunch into a jam direction of passe cash, contemporary cash, nosy kin, and scheming social climbers.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0345803787
ISBN-13 9780345803788
eBay Product ID (ePID) 170301576

Key Cramped print
Author Kevin Kwan
Number Of Pages 544 pages
Layout Paperback
Publication Date 2014-05-20
Language English
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Crew
Publication Yr 2014

Dimensions
Weight 12.8 Ounces19459034]
Prime 1 In.
Width 5.2 In.
Size 8 In.

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Dewey Decimal 813.6
Dewey Edition 23

Reports
“A dizzily shopaholic comedy of crass manners . . . Loopy Rich Asians provides refreshing nouveau voyeurism to readers who plot again burned out on American and English aspirational fantasies. Mr. Kwan either knows, or does a ultimate job of pretending to know, how the very smartly off of Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai suppose their very possess praises their lucre . . . Hilarious . . . This e book title-drops about many different Asian cultures and mixes low slang from Malay and the Cantonese and Hokkien dialects of Chinese . . . Mr. Kwan makes the most of them . . . A mountainous tour of a humorously grandiose and showoffy world. Mr. Kwan knows how to bring guilty pleasures. He keeps the repartee properly harmful, the excess unhappy and the info wickedly magnificent.” –Janet Maslin, The Contemporary York Cases “Kwan”s rollicking, once more and once more-riotous debut current, Loopy Rich Asians , reads like a at the again of-the-scenes primer of the rising �ber-elite of the ever-highly efficient Asian world . . . . the reader is given an intimate window into the spending and investing patterns, and burgeoning and crumbling relationships of this upper echelon of unparalleled wealth . . . an animated, bright current . . . a active, optimistic narrative of shallow extravagance and human devotion.” –S. Kirk Walsh, The Boston Globe “Loopy Rich Asians has your entire space and color of a tabloid mag, design in Asia. This plot that entrance doors are cathedral sized, millions are truly billions and shopping is, as one character places it, ”Fifth Avenue on steroids” . . . Positioned to your designer shades, stuff an umbrella into your drink, and lose your self in the antics of those that cheat on their husbands with secret out of the country shopping journeys. By the point you”ve completed that you simply must soundless have a smartly off, golden tan.” –Emma Keller, The Guardian (UK) “A debut current that sheds light on the gilded world of Asian wealth and shopping tradition that practically all Westerners handiest decide glimpses of.” –Sarah Hampson, The Globe and Mail (Canada) “Deliciously decadent . . . Rachel, an American-born Chinese (ABC), has no plot what to inquire of when she visits Singapore to meet her boyfriend Slash”s multibillionaire family. There, she discovers mind-blowing opulence– next season”s couture, palatial properties, million-dollar shopping sprees–and the over-the-top inferior behavior that contains it . . . This forty eight-karat beach be taught is crazy fun.” –Stephan Lee, Leisure Weekly “There”s smartly off, there”s filthy smartly off, and then there”s crazy smartly off . . . A Pleasure and Prejudice -like send-up about an inheritor bringing his Chinese-American lady friend house to meet his ancestor-obsessed family, the e book hilariously skewers imperial splendor and the conniving antics of the Asians jet design.” –Of us “When Kevin Kwan”s Loopy Rich Asians has a mother in Singapore telling her girls to enact the whole lot on their plates attributable to ”there are teens ravenous in The United States,” it”s O.K. to compile the funny narrative. There”s no have to dwell on what it in actual fact plot. Loopy Rich Asians is that this summer”s ”Bergdorf Blondes,” over-the-top funny and a novelty in addition. Mr. Kwan delivers nonstop hoots just a few complete contemporary breed of smartly off, inaccurate, stamp-title-shedding conspicuous patrons, with its possess delicacies, curses, vices, stereotypes (”I’m hoping she”s not one of those Taiwanese tornadoes!”) and acronyms. In step with Mr. Kwan, this crowd makes exhaust of U.B.C., because the College of British Columbia, in Vancouver, is identified, to mean ”College of a Billion Chinese.” How smartly off and inaccurate are the Anglophile Asians of this debut current? Rich ample to throw a diamond of extra than 30 carats staunch into a snowdrift and not see it. So inaccurate that a Cirque du Soleil troupe has to demonstrate up to bring that things have gotten crass. So steeped in unhappy excess that one man boasts about the categorical temperature his local weather-managed shoe closet ought to be.” — The Contemporary York Cases Coastline Discovering out Roundup “Mr. “A dizzily shopaholic comedy of crass manners . . . Loopy Rich Asians  provides refreshing nouveau voyeurism to readers who plot again burned out on American and English aspirational fantasies. Mr. Kwan either knows, or does a ultimate job of pretending to know, how the very smartly off of Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai suppose their very possess praises their lucre . . . Hilarious . . . This e book title-drops about many different Asian cultures and mixes low slang from Malay and the Cantonese and Hokkien dialects of Chinese . . . Mr. Kwan makes the most of them . . . A mountainous tour of a humorously grandiose and showoffy world. Mr. Kwan knows how to bring guilty pleasures. He keeps the repartee properly harmful, the excess unhappy and the info wickedly magnificent.” -Janet Maslin, The Contemporary York Cases “Deliciously decadent . . . Rachel, an American-born Chinese (ABC), has no plot what to inquire of when she visits Singapore to meet her boyfriend Slash’s multibillionaire family. There, she discovers mind-blowing opulence– next season’s couture, palatial properties, million-dollar shopping sprees–and the over-the-top inferior behavior that contains it . . . This forty eight-karat beach be taught is crazy fun.” -Stephan Lee, Leisure Weekly   “There’s smartly off, there might maybe be filthy smartly off, and then there might maybe be crazy smartly off . . . A Pleasure and Prejudice -like send-up about an inheritor bringing his Chinese-American lady friend house to meet his ancestor-obsessed family, the e book hilariously skewers imperial splendor and the conniving antics of the Asians jet design.” -Of us  “When Kevin Kwan’s  Loopy Rich Asians  has a mother in Singapore telling her girls to enact the whole lot on their plates attributable to ‘there are teens ravenous in The United States,’ it is O.K. to compile the funny narrative. There isn’t any have to dwell on what it in actual fact plot. Loopy Rich Asians is that this summer’s ‘Bergdorf Blondes,’ over-the-top funny and a novelty in addition. Mr. Kwan delivers nonstop hoots just a few complete contemporary breed of smartly off, inaccurate, stamp-title-shedding conspicuous patrons, with its possess delicacies, curses, vices, stereotypes (‘I’m hoping she’s not one of those Taiwanese tornadoes!’) and acronyms. In step with Mr. Kwan, this crowd makes exhaust of U.B.C., because the College of British Columbia, in Vancouver, is identified, to mean ‘College of a Billion Chinese.’ How smartly off and inaccurate are the Anglophile Asians of this debut current? Rich ample to throw a diamond of extra than 30 carats staunch into a snowdrift and not see it. So inaccurate that a Cirque du Soleil troupe has to demonstrate up to bring that things have gotten crass. So steeped in unhappy excess that one man boasts about the categorical temperature his local weather-managed shoe closet ought to be.” – The Contemporary York Cases Coastline Discovering out Roundup “Mr. Kwan’s delightfully soapy debut, [is] design in the glamorous beau monde of Singapore-‘the Switzerland of Asia’-with excursions to Paris, Hong Kong and a deepest Indonesian island . . . Or not it is by Rachel, the massive-eyed interloper, that we watch the extravagances of this ‘secretive, rarefied circle of households . . .’ Mr. Kwan’s e book eats its chiffon cake and has it too, simultaneously tut-tutting loads of its characters for his or her vapid materialism while reveling in the milieu’s sybaritic excess . . . Mr. Kwan skillfully engineers a ultimate-natured narrative wherein Rachel have to beat the schemes of Nicholas”s disapproving mother.” -Sam Sacks, The Wall Facet highway Journal   ” Loopy Rich Asians is like Dynasty on steroids with extra deepest jets, bigger homes, and loads extra cash. It is the very definition of a beach be taught. I completed it over a weekend and by the cease was once longing to survey the ridiculously extravagant and over-the-top world that Mr. Kwan had created…. I predict this would be the 50 Shades of Gray of this summer.” -Michael Carl, VanityFair.com    ” Loopy Rich Asians is both a deliciously satiric be taught and a Fodor’s of forms to the sphere of Singapore’s fabulously monied, both contemporary and passe. “A dizzily shopaholic comedy. . . . Wickedly magnificent. . . . Offers refreshing nouveau voyeurism to readers who plot again burned out on American and English aspirational fantasies. . . . Hilarious.” — Janet Maslin, The Contemporary York Cases “Or not it is not likely not to compile sucked into this satirical current about the jet-setting lives of an endless busybody family and its endless Louboutin collection.” — Glamour “There’s smartly off, there might maybe be filthy smartly off, and then there might maybe be crazy smartly off. . . . A Pleasure and Prejudice -like send-up.” –Of us “If that isn’t the funniest e book up to now this 365 days, it is up there. . . . Kwan, who grew up in Singapore, skewers his issues deftly, stylishly, and fully–but with heart.” — The Denver Put up “Deliciously decadent. . . . This forty eight-karat beach be taught is crazy fun. . . . [Read] Loopy Rich Asians , on an exotic beach in trim-costly shades.” — Leisure Weekly “An unputdownably funny, customary, unique current. . . . I in actual fact could not put apart this e book the entire plot down to eat or to examine Downton Abbey .” –Plum Sykes, creator of Bergdorf Blondes “Rachel’s squeaky-orderly naiveté is a artful foil to the intricate workings of the high-glamour Asian design round her. Chinese on the open air but all-American on the interior, she permits us to survey the myriad nuances of intra-Asian tradition that the present goes to gargantuan lengths to demonstrate.” –Tash Aw, NPR “Rollicking. . . . A active, optimistic narrative of shallow extravagance and human devotion.” — The Boston Globe “Usual and fun, Loopy Rich Asians in all equity a roller coaster outing. I cherished it!” –Jackie Collins, creator of The Vitality Outing “Delightfully soapy. . . . [ Crazy Rich Asians ] eats its chiffon cake and has it too, simultaneously tut-tutting loads of its characters for his or her vapid materialism while reveling in the milieu’s sybaritic excess.” — The Wall Facet highway Journal “As spicily adventurous and lusciously tremendous because the famend Singaporean avenue meals Kevin Kwan’s characters argue over; hot and scorching, just like the categorical satay , and dreamily transporting, like everyone’s popular dessert– goreng pisang . Feast on this outrageously funny and insightful current of unique manners, and abilities!” –Lisa Witness, creator of Goals of Joy and Shanghai Ladies “[An] rapid popular. . . . Opulence and zaniness reign.” — O, The Oprah Magazine “Love Dynasty on steroids with extra deepest jets, bigger homes, and loads extra cash.” –VanityFair.com “Kevin Kwan will get it gorgeous in his debut current steeped in cherish and dripping with cash.” — Day after day Candy “Each a deliciously satiric be taught and a Fodor’s of forms to the sphere of Singapore’s fabulously moneyed, both contemporary and passe.” — The Day after day News “Jane Austen, or maybe Edith Wharton, goes to Singapore, turning in this active, animated current of manners.” — Kirkus Reports (starred overview) “Mordantly funny. . . . [A] winning summer satire.” –Vogue “A juicy, cease anthropological be taught of Singapore high society.” — Elle “Shrewd, funny, appealing. . . . In the present day a cherish narrative and a potent combination of classic Jackie Collins and early Evelyn Waugh.” –Michael Korda, creator of Charmed Lives “A witty tongue-in-cheek frolic about what it solution to be from in actual fact passe cash and what it is grab to be crazy smartly off.” — Publishers Weekly , Resolve of the Week

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