Kevin Kwan: ‘I don’t want ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to be my enduring legacy’
He shot to fame with the best-selling Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, which was translated into 40 languages and adapted into a blockbuster film. Featured in TheHollywood Reporter’s “most powerful authors” list and Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2018, he is back with a new novel, Sex And Vanity, which, he says, is the first in a trilogy. Inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Room With A View, the novel tells the story of the internalized racism of Lucie Tang Churchill, a half-American, half-Chinese girl born into a wealthy, snobbish family from New York. Did you worry that whatever you wrote next would be compared with ‘Crazy Rich Asians’? In some ways, though, it’s terrifying because I don’t want Crazy Rich Asians to be my enduring legacy, because I feel I am so much more than just one book.
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