Книга The Original Daughter: 'A book not to miss' New York Times
'Precise, layered and moving, The Original Daughter is a book not to miss' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'I cannot put this damn book down' ROXANE GAY
'Wise and wonderful' PAUL BEATTY
'Thrilling . . . so much the real deal' KAVEH AKBAR
'Seismic' JONATHAN ESCOFFERY
Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in Bedok, she is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead.
At once collaborators and sisters, Gen and Arin grow up inseparable, navigating the intensity of life in working-class Singapore - where urgent insistence on achievement demands self-immolation in the realms of imagination, work, and play. But as the rapidly modernising, winner-takes-all world threatens to leave one behind as the other's star rises exponentially, the sisters must weigh their allegiances and bonds, the cost of success and ultimately reckon with who they've become. What results is a story that cracks open the fault lines of Singaporean society, our desperate need for acceptance and our yearning to be loved.
Vivid and visceral, The Original Daughter is a breathtaking act of empathy by a new literary star.
'A tour de force that I'll never forget' QIAN JULIE WANG
'I read in a fever' EMILY ITAMI
'Heartfelt and meticulously written' SHARLENE TEO
'A true literary talent' TASH AW
"Precise, layered and moving, The Original Daughter is a book not to miss" - New York Times Book Review
"Wei treats Gen and Arin's complex bond with humor and pathos. A remarkably nuanced exploration of sisterhood and its limits" - Publisher’s Weekly
"Glorious . . . Revelatory . . . A tragic, haunting exercise in the limitations of not-quite unconditional love . . . Wei poignantly, affectingly observes an extended family that sunders from dysfunction and betrayals" - Shelf Awareness
"A gripping tale of two sisters long separated by acts of cruelty and the inability to forgive . . . Illuminates both the need for, and cost of, estrangement" - Financial Times
"A breathtaking triumph and a complicated ode to working-class Singapore" - Singapore Vogue
"[A] decades-spanning saga about ambition, resentment, and forgiveness" - Time, Best New Books
"A piercing exploration of chosen families, female ambition and the psychological pressures of growing up in a hyper-competitive city-state" - Tatler
"A story about girlhood, ambition and the competitive pressures of Singapore's education system, told with clarity, precision and an emotional undercurrent that lingers long after the final page" - FZine
"Propelled by the suffocating intensity of sisterhood . . . Full of lush, descriptive prose . . . An assured debut, the kind of novel you want to luxuriate in" - Foreign Policy
"Wei's characters are distinct, colourful, wonderfully flawed" - Guardian