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Imprint: Harvill Secker
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Published: 09/01/2020
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ISBN: 9781787301870
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 135mm
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Weight: 294g
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RRP: £13.99
'An Yu writes beautifully about loneliness, the experience of isolation, and the possibility of human connection, however fragile. Braised Pork is mesmerising'
-- Rosie Price, author of What Red Was
One autumn morning in Beijing, just after breakfast, Jia Jia's life changes for ever.
After the sudden loss of her husband, the young artist sets out on a journey from a hidden jazz and whiskey bar, via a strange and dreamlike world of water, to the high plains of Tibet. Along the way, she crosses paths with people experiencing losses of their own, including someone who may be able to offer her the love she had long thought impossible.
Cinematic and delicately beautiful, Braised Pork is an exploration of myth-making, connection, a world beyond words, and of a young woman's search deep into her past, in order to arrive at her future.
**A STYLIST BEST BOOK OF 2020**
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Imprint: Harvill Secker
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Published: 09/01/2020
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ISBN: 9781787301870
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 135mm
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Weight: 294g
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RRP: £13.99
Reviews
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An elegant, dreamlike tale of a woman’s self-realisation in contemporary Beijing. Yu’s writing has an arresting, unadorned lyricism
Daily Telegraph
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A seductive, sharply observed tale of love, loss and hope that moves from high-rise Beijing to rural Tibet and the mysterious, magical ‘world of water’
Fanny Blake, Daily Mail
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A startlingly original imagination... Braised Pork is a sensitive portrait of alienated young womanhood as it is set free
Guardian
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Rich and strange … Braised Pork is a debut that gets under your skin
Anthony Cummins, Observer
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Braised Pork is mesmerising, incisive and utterly disarming. An Yu writes beautifully about loneliness, the experience of isolation — from others, from one’s own past — and the possibility of human connection, however fragile.
Rosie Price
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So elegant and poised, so tuned to the great mysteries of love and loss. Like a breeze on a still day, An Yu’s is a voice I didn't know I needed until I felt it. Braised Pork is a major debut
John Freeman
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Bold yet understated, Braised Pork is the debut of a supremely confident and gifted writer.
Katie Kitamura
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What a singular, slippery, transfixing novel this is. An Yu achieves a hypnotizing emotional clarity as she takes her narrator ever further from a stifling life in Beijing into a watery realm unlike any I've read before.
Idra Novey
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Yu’s novel has a cool, poised elegance that only adds to its enigmatic allure
Economist
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A dizzying read… An Yu writes with style and in a way that is hard to resist
Lucy Knight, Sunday Times
