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The Whitewash

Written by: Siang Lu
Narrated by: Tim Potter, Nick Ravenswood, Siang Lu, Tom Hart, Berlin Lu, Eva Seymour, James Huang, Jamie Hart, Jing-Xuan Chan, Keith Brockett, Marty Rhone, Yen Nguyen, Ichigon, Daniel Qin
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WINNER OF THE ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.

Winner of the QLA Glendower Emerging Writer Award

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award

A Booktopia Best Book of the Year

Multi-cast narration and enhanced audio features.

Siang Lu's searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing of the Asian film industry, told in the form of an oral documentary

It sounded like a good idea at the time- A Hollywood spy thriller, starring, for the first time in history, an Asian male lead. With an estimated $350 million production budget and up-and-coming Hong Kong actor JK Jr, who, let's be honest, is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but probably the hottest, Brood Empire was basically a sure thing. Until it wasn't.

So how did it all fall apart? There were smart guys involved. So smart, so woke. So woke it hurts. There was topnotch talent across the board and the financial backing of a heavyweight Chinese studio. And yet, Brood Empire is remembered now not as a historical landmark of Asian representation that smashed the bamboo ceiling in Hollywood, but rather as a fiasco of seismic proportions.

The Whitewash is the definitive oral history of the whole sordid mess. Unofficial. Unasked for. Only intermittently fact-checked, and featuring a fool's gallery of actors, producers, directors, film historians and scummy click-bait journalists, to answer the question of how it all went so horribly, horribly wrong.

©2022 Siang Lu (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd
Dark Humour Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban

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WINNER OF THE ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

Winner of the QLA Glendower Emerging Writer Award

Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award

A Booktopia Best Book of the Year

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