When American-born Chinese economics professor Rachel Chu travels to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick Young to attend his best friend's wedding, she discovers he belongs to one of Asia's wealthiest, most status-obsessed families, and must navigate the opulence, gossip, and disapproval of his mother Eleanor and the extended Young-Shang-T'sien clan.
Books mentioned in Crazy Rich Asians (4)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “Wye Mun jokes 'I told you Jane Ear would come down sooner or later,' and his son Peik Wing corrects him: 'Jane Eyre was the nanny, Papa, not the woman who—'”
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: “Nick browses a mahogany bookcase of nautical-themed titles: 'Lieutenant Hornblower. Islands in the Stream. Billy Budd.'”
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway: “Same bookcase scene: 'Lieutenant Hornblower. Islands in the Stream. Billy Budd. All nautical-themed titles.'”
August by Knut Hamsun: “From the same shelf, Nick picks out 'a volume by Knut Hamsun that he had never heard of, August, and settled into one of the overstuffed club chairs' to read.”