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About Kevin Kwan
See more books from this AuthorA witty tongue-in-cheek frolic about what it means to be from really old money and what it’s like to be crazy rich.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyMr. Kwan knows how to deliver guilty pleasures. He keeps the repartee nicely outrageous, the excess wretched and the details wickedly delectable.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from NY TimesA male author – an Asian one at that – has pushed past the velvet ropes of race, culture and gender, to tap that exclusive genre: chick lit. A move arguably more ambitious than breaking into Singapore's moneyed elite.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from GuardianCrazy Rich Asians is scathingly funny, outrageous at all times, and utterly credible. Kwan could not have done the research for this book on Wikipedia. He had to live it...If the novel has a fault, you could describe it as an embarrassment of riches: the story’s about 100 pages too long.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from NY Journal of BooksThis world of absurdly over-the-top wealth is the playground of the characters in Kevin Kwan's breathless, high-speed romp through the lives of a group of megarich Asians.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from NPRJane Austen, or maybe Edith Wharton, goes to Singapore, turning in this lively, entertaining novel of manners.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from KirkusWith a wicked sense of humor, Kwan easily acquaints us with the dizzyingly dazzling myriad of memorable characters who populate his debut.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians...the book could have benefited from a more ruthless editor and fewer descriptions of all the excess.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from Toronto StarAt times Kwan can't decide whether to criticize the luxe life or just let us drool over it, but this 48-karat beach read is crazy fun.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansBoth vivisection and valentine, it is the summer’s most sophisticated romp. Other novels might be more “lyrical,” more “unflinching,” more whatever...but for full-stop fun, stop right here.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from National Post artsThis is fun, superficial escapism that hooks and reels in even the reluctant reader: Dynasty among the filthy-rich Chinese community.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansIf you really want mindless reading, you can’t go wrong with Crazy Rich Asians. Kwan is not a terrible writer, if entertainment is all you hope to get out of your reading material; he does have a flair for a witty turn of phrase...
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansIt's witty and lots of fun but in the end I did weary of the endless wealth porn. It all starts to feel a little bit one-joke at times, which is a pity as Kwan could have got his point across with fewer designer names and less high spending.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansThe different characters are carefully drawn and the dialogue convincing. The plot also takes in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. The love story has an unexpected ending - enjoy the read.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansKwan easily transports captive readers from Sex and the City New York and to sensual Singapore, lush with flowers, savoury with food, luxurious with designer labels and glittering jewels.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansThis book is a trip, literally and figuratively. Crazy Rich Asians takes you into the world of the crazily rich families who make up the Singapore elite. These people are wealthy beyond my imagining and I loved delving into this wild world.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansThough A Suitable Boy is a more classically literary concoction, and this one is definitely more pop and like that most cliched Chinese meal — you might be hungry again right after reading it — Crazy Rich Asians does succeed, indeed, as a snapshot of a culture and a time.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians | See more reviews from National Post artsThe book has already been picked up for a film adaptation by Nina Jacobson, producer of The Hunger Games, which gives an indication of the story’s entertainment factor. Grab a takeaway laksa and be transported...
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich Asians“Crazy Rich Asians” is an entertaining, engrossing novel. Kwan certainly knows how to tell a lively, generous story of shallow extravagance and human devotion.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansThe extravagance depicted in Crazy Rich Asians is certainly mind boggling to consider that some people actually live that way...and I’m sure she was, in a way, intended to be the “eyes of the reader” in this unbelievable world of riches. Definitely an entertaining read with a relatively satisfying climactic showdown.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansSo I really liked Crazy Rich Asians!! While this wasn’t the kind of book I would have picked up on my own, the combination of great reviews I’d seen for the book and my friend’s urging helped me decide to read it.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansGlorious, glittery and gleeful, Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians is an absolute indulgence of a book. It’s excess upon excess to absurd proportions, yet always grounded in lovingly detailed characters that somehow manage to remain all too human.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansIn short, if you'd like to read a gossipy story about high society intrigue, I'd recommend this book. But if you want to get to know Singapore, hmm... try Tais Toi or anything by Neil Humphrey. I'm really hoping that there's a sequel that focuses on Astrid though, that would be a fun read.
Read Full Review of Crazy Rich AsiansAn outrageously funny debut, Crazy Rich Asians (2013) is the story of three superrich, pedigreed Chinese families...a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.
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