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The iconic author of the best-selling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds - the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.

Kevin Kwan, best-selling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birth father.

When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside - but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park - a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore - Nicholas' childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage.

Dlya togo chtoby probit'sya v vysshij svet Singapura i Gonkonga, nedostatochno imet' v karmane milliard-drugoj, tut neobhodima osobaya strategiya i rukovodstvo opytnogo konsul'tanta, inache tak i ostanesh'sya zhalkim razbogatevshim vyskochkoj. Pri etom, okazyvaetsya, est' strannye lyudi, kotoryh tyagotit prinadlezhnost' k elite, i oni ne gotovy promenyat' svoyu lichnuyu svobodu na titul kakogo-nibud' "princa bankirov".

"Nigde v mire vy ne najdete takih bogatyh lyudej, kak kitajcy", - pisal srednevekovyj arabskij puteshestvennik Ibn Battuta; etu frazu Kevin Kvan ispol'zoval kak epigraf k svoemu mezhdunarodnomu bestselleru. Itak, poznakom'tes' s Rejchel CHu; ona amerikanka kitajskogo proiskhozhdeniya, molodoj professor ekonomiki v n'yu-jorkskom universitete i specialist po teorii igr. Odnazhdy ee bojfrend Nik, tozhe universitetskij prepodavatel', rodom iz Singapura, zovet ee provesti leto v Azii - sostavit' emu kompaniyu v poezdke na svad'bu ego luchshego druga Kolina.