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R.F. Kuang

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Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, translator, and award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel: An Arcane History, among others. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. She is rarely here, except to leave occasional adoring reviews for books she really loved.

Average rating: 4.26 · 389,537 ratings · 73,335 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Poppy War (The Poppy Wa...

4.16 avg rating — 170,401 ratings — published 2018 — 66 editions
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Babel: An Arcane  History

4.29 avg rating — 77,326 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions
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The Dragon Republic (The Po...

4.39 avg rating — 73,951 ratings — published 2019 — 46 editions
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The Burning God (The Poppy ...

4.33 avg rating — 52,762 ratings — published 2020 — 42 editions
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The Drowning Faith (The Pop...

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Yellowface

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“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
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“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
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“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
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