What a mistake that is when we could all be eating from the steamy hotpot of Kevin Kwan novels. Elderly Chinese ladies carrying Louis Vuitton trunks full of ramen packets to Paris because “25 euros for fried rice” is insane. They are different from you and me.” And Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”The Kevin Kwan books differ from other books about wealth in one significant way. Everything is about money in the Kwan novels in the way that everything is about sex in porn. Kwan’s books have almost no plot, but what keeps things moving is the continuous avarice of the older generation in marrying their children further up the vertiginous ladder.

Source: The Hindu July 23, 2016 18:22 UTC