An
elegant, dreamlike tale of a woman's self-realisation in contemporary Beijing. Yu's writing has an arresting, unadorned lyricism * Daily Telegraph *
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 *
A startlingly original imagination...
Braised Pork is
a sensitive portrait of alienated young womanhood as it is set free * Guardian *
Rich and strange ...
Braised Pork is a debut that gets under your skin -- Anthony Cummins * Observer *
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 *
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 *
Bold yet understated,
Braised Pork is the debut of a
supremely confident and gifted writer. * Katie Kitamura *
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 *
Yu's novel has a
cool, poised elegance that only adds to its
enigmatic allure * Economist *
A dizzying read... An Yu writes with style and in a way that is hard to resist -- Lucy Knight * Sunday Times *
Richly associative, the book's imagery
insinuates itself into the reader's consciousness long after it's finished -- Jude Cook * Spectator *
This
exquisite novel is many things:
a detective story in which the real object of pursuit is how one makes meaning of a sometimes ineffable existence; a meditation on the talismanic power of art and the indefatigability of the human spirit; and a many-faceted, perfectly cut gem of psychological portraiture set in well-wrought sentences burnished to a gorgeous luster.
The emotions in this book keep pace with you, shadowing you with a quiet intensity, until in the last stretch they overtake you completely. * Matthew Thomas *
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 *
Bold yet understated, Braised Pork is the debut of a supremely confident and gifted writer.'
* Katie Kitamura *
