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Chinatown interiore

✍ Scribed by Charles Yu


Publisher
La nave di Teseo
Year
2021
Tongue
Italian
Weight
94 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9788834606339

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✦ Synopsis


Cosa succede quando non sei il protagonista della tua vita ma una semplice comparsa? Willis Wu vive in un piccolo appartamento a Chinatown e tutti i giorni si reca al Tempio d’oro, un ristorante cinese adibito a set cinematografico dove viene girata la serie poliziesca β€œBianca e Nero”. Ma Willis non Γ¨ l’attore principale, le regole di Hollywood prevedono per lui, di origine asiatica, solo parti di contorno, dal fattorino delle consegne al cameriere. Willis lotta per farsi strada nella serie, il suo sogno Γ¨ diventare il Fenomeno del kung fu, il ruolo piΓΉ importante che un orientale possa interpretare, quello a cui tutti ambiscono. Ma Γ¨ veramente cosΓ¬? È quello il massimo a cui puΓ² aspirare, nella serie come nella vita? Willis si troverΓ  ad affrontare un mondo piΓΉ grande e complesso di quello della Chinatown dov’è cresciuto, scoprirΓ  le origini di quel luogo e le radici della sua famiglia fino a interrogarsi su cosa voglia dire veramente fare la comparsa in una vita che fatica ad accettarlo. Charles Yu costruisce un romanzo che scorre tra serie TV e kung fu, ironico e sorprendente come un film di Tarantino, per raccontare la storia di un protagonista che vuole integrarsi in un mondo dalle regole spietate. Un romanzo sulla ricerca di se stessi oltre il ruolo che ci Γ¨ stato imposto, divertente, feroce, commovente.


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