"'Crazy Rich Asians' is an outrageous peephole into a world we mostly know from the pages of 'The Economist'.
Kwan certainly knows how to tell a lively, generous story of shallow extravagance and human devotion." "Crazy Rich Asians" is an entertaining, engrossing novel.
he seamlessly rotates the close, third-person points of view of his intricate constellation of characters without missing a beat. "With each chapter, Kwan skillfully moves the narrative forward with escalating tension. With no shortage of private jets, palatial spreads, and prodigious shoe collections, Kwan's characters make Blair Waldorf seem quaint by comparison." Opulence knows no bounds in this novel about the upper echelons of Singapore society. Plum Sykes, bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes I actually couldn't put this book down to eat or to watch Downton Abbey." "An unputdownably funny, original, modern novel. "It's impossible not to get sucked into this satirical novel about the jet-setting lives of an enormous busybody family and its infinite Louboutin collection." Kwan, who grew up in Singapore, skewers his subjects deftly, stylishly, and completelybut with heart." "If this isn't the funniest book so far this year, it's up there. eats its chiffon cake and has it too, simultaneously tut-tutting many of its characters for their vapid materialism while reveling in the milieu's sybaritic excess." "Like Dynasty on steroids with more private jets, bigger houses, and a lot more money." "There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich.
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