The phenomenon kevin kwan It is explained from the discovery of an Asian writer with a sense of humor enough to satirize aspects of their culture. Because in the farthest east the social referents, their imaginary and idiosyncrasies, are only assaulted from always more critical aspects. As sometimes happens with Japanese Murakami. Only this eternal aspiring Japanese Nobel laureate maintains a certain reverence that only the comic can destroy with the healing and liberating magic of laughter.
It is also true that having Japanese or Chinese roots is not the same as coming from the most vindictive Singapore with British colonial roots and also ending up living between Singapore and the USA.
More or less correct ramblings aside, the point is that this Kevin Kwan (even wanted in his country since 2018 for escaping from the military), is a guy who transmits that necessary and revealing humor that exposes each one in front of the mirror of their moral miseries imported from the collective and their natural contradictions. The first step, in addition to acknowledging the sin or guilt, is to try to laugh at it ...
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Crazy, rich and Asian
The new rich… appear everywhere. Although in the past they proliferated to a greater extent with the usual insolence of their full wallets in front of the rich consolidated of crib and complementary training (not all rich people easily learn to behave as such). Every time the dream of being new rich is reduced to more of a bizarre lottery, whether in games of chance, in the company that ends up succeeding, or in the fly of a lifetime.
On this occasion we address the casuistry of the fly, of the meeting between the young proletarian Rachel Chu (a woman, in this case), and her wealthy but restrained boyfriend Nicholas Young.
The two share their dating days in the city of anonymity par excellence, New York. And that is where Nicholas can go through one more, interact as one more and make Rachel fall in love as one more, with that necessary certainty that awakens in some extremely realistic rich people. The need to know that those around them are not there to take advantage of them.
Of course, in the end everything is known. When Nicholas and Rachel travel to Singapore for the typical bride-to-groom presentation, Rachel discovers that her boyfriend's family has money to bore.
And that is where she must begin that learning process of every new rich man, with its setbacks, its falsehoods, its consumer gaps, its eccentricities and a whole amalgam of follies in which Rachel is introduced into the peculiar fauna of the most imposing capitalism, just the one her boyfriend Nicholas seemed to want to run away from when he set out for New York.
Between satire and comedy, the novel takes that flight full of humor over a patina of tragic emptiness of the material. Between parties, uncontrolled shopping, laughter and good vibes, Rachel and Nicholas must nevertheless fight against the obstacles that are emerging and that seem to lead to the failure of their relationship. Because perhaps not all the boy's relatives are very satisfied with the chosen one ...
Rachel Chu's wedding
Not a man from Cádiz with a chirigota would have given it a more stereotypical oriental name, as well as cacophonic, than Rachel Chu. But the thing is that the shots are going there precisely, because of that joke to which the most necessary writer of humor has already become accustomed to us from the farthest Asia.
A crazed comedy featuring social climbs, secret emails, art world scandals, love-struck billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, fiancée of Asia's golden bachelor, discovers who her father is.
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the great Asian fortunes, Rachel should be feeling happy. She has a diamond like no other, a dreamy wedding dress, and a groom who is willing to ignore his nosy family members and give up his fortune in order to marry her. However, Rachel is saddened by the absence of her biological father, whom she never met.
When a fortuitous accident reveals her identity, Rachel is suddenly immersed in the lavish splendor of Shanghai's high society. In this world of excessive luxury he will meet Carlton, a bad boy with a tendency to crash Ferraris; to Colette, a celebrity of social networks persecuted by infatuated paparazzi, and the man Rachel has been waiting for her whole life: her father.
