Crazy Rich Asians

Author(s): Kevin Kwan

Location(s): Singapore

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Crazy: When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn’t know is that Nick’s family home happens to look like a palace, that she’ll ride in more private planes than cars and that she is about to encounter the strangest, craziest group of people in existence. Rich: Initiated into a world of dynastic splendour beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society: Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines: and Eleanor, Nick’s formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should – and should not – marry. Asians: Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider’s look at the Asian jet set: a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money – and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.

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