From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is "One of the great queer novels . . . of our time."—Brandon Taylor, GQTwelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine whose powerful soprano voice wins him a place as section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when, on a retreat, Fee discovers how the director treats the boys he makes section lea...

Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores how we form identities in life and in art.**As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With his first coll...

Fee è un dodicenne americano cresciuto nel Maine, che da sempre ondeggia tra l'attrazione per le sue radici coreane, fatte di miti, saggezza e animali fantastici, e il desiderio di integrarsi. Quando entra nel coro maschile locale, crede di aver trovato finalmente il suo posto nel mondo ma, durante un ritiro, scopre che il direttore del coro rivolge le sue perverse attenzioni su alcuni ragazzi. Fee non parla: la voce che ha appena imparato a usare si spegne. Inchiodato dalla vergogna, tace...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, and others. The mesmerizing story of one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva—"a brilliant performance" (Washington Post).The Queen of the Night tells the captivating story of Lilliet Berne, an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept into the g...

Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayNamed a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch, Bustle, The Chicago Review of Books and iBooksAs a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as 'masterful' by Roxane Gay, 'incendiary' by the New York Times, and 'brilliant' by the Washington ...

Recommended by The Observer . . .'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author of A Little LifeWhen it begins, it begins as an opera should begin: in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a stranger, who you discover has your fate in his hands . . .She is Lilliet Berne. And she is the soprano.

'Every word makes me ache ... Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay**'**Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing ... One of the best American novels of this century' Boston GlobeTwelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. At their summer camp, situated in an idyllic and secluded lakeside retreat, Fee grapples with his comp...

Fee ist zwölf Jahre alt, schüchtern und singt im Knabenchor einer Kleinstadt in Maine. Als es während eines Sommercamps zu sexuellen Übergriffen durch den Chorleiter kommt, schweigt er aus Scham – selbst dann noch, als sein bester Freund das nächste Opfer zu werden droht. Der Chorleiter wird schließlich verhaftet, doch Fee kann sich sein Schweigen nicht verzeihen. Jahre später, inzwischen Schwimmlehrer an einem Internat, wird er erneut mit den schmerzhaften Erlebnissen seiner Vergangenheit...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee, read by Rachel Bavidge.From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as 'the fire, in my opinion, and the light', a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned starLilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role. When one is finally offered to...

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Der amerikanische Autor Alexander Chee spürt in diesen autobiografischen Essays dem Wechselverhältnis von Leben, Literatur und Politik nach. Chronologisch angeordnet, zeigen sie Chee, wie er vom Schüler zum Lehrer, vom Leser zum Autor heranwächst und sich dabei den widersprüchlichen Anforderungen seiner verschiedenen Identitäten stellt: als Amerikaner mit koreanischen Wurzeln, als schwuler Mann, Künstler und politischer Aktivist. Intensiv beschäftigt sich Chee mit den prägenden Erfahrungen...

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.