ISBN: 9780802148728
Editorial: Grove Press
Autor: Yu, An
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 240
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: About the AuthorAn Yu was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English. She is twenty-six years old and lives between Paris and Hong Kong. Braised Pork is her first novel.Beautiful, dreamlike, and utterly intoxicating, Braised Pork is the beguiling debut of an outstandingly talented young writer who is based in China but writes in EnglishOne autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia’s mind and won’t leave.The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its high-rise apartments to its hidden bars, as her path crosses some of the people who call the city home, including a jaded bartender who may be able to offer her the kind of love she had long thought impossible. Unencumbered by a marriage that had constrained her, Jia Jia travels into her past to try to discover things that were left unsaid by the people closest to her. Her journey takes her to the high plains of Tibet, and even to a shadowy, watery otherworld, a place she both yearns and fears to go.Exquisitely attuned to the complexities of human connection, and an atmospheric and cinematic evocation of middle-class urban China, An Yu’s Braised Pork explores the intimate strangeness of grief, the indelible mysteries of unseen worlds, and the energizing self-discovery of a newly empowered young woman.ReviewPraise for Braised Pork:An Indies Introduce TitleA New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection“Produces its own kind of mind trip . . . Written with a shimmering lightness that maintains, as Jia Jia thinks of her watery visions, ‘some balance between mystery and simplicity’ . . . An also tucks a touching love story into the strange proceedings, which supplies enough incentive to keep Jia Jia―and the reader―equally invested in boring old reality.”―Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal“An original and electric narrative . . . Yu’s language is sparse yet surreal . . . In Braised Pork, Yu raises provocative questions about why we get fixated on those moments―and how they might relate to the company we crave.”―Annabel Gutterman, TIME, “One of the Best Books of the Month”“Braised Pork’s central journey is interior: the incremental and circuitous process of a human mind trying to come to terms with itself . . . A haunting, coolly written novel . . . Intensely atmospheric.”―Los Angeles Review of Books“Yu’s prose is crisp and never tedious, with bursts of startling imagery amid the otherwise restrained style.”―Karen Cheung, New York Times Book Review“Dreamy and surreal . . . What follows is her journey of rediscovery―of her passion, of her spirituality, of her artistic abilities, and of herself―that evolves in her real life and in dreams. It’s otherworldly and deeply moving.”―BuzzFeed“Outstanding . . . Unforgettable . . . There is a kind of magic in the way the reader is also constantly submerged with Jia Jia for just long enough, before catching breath on the surface . . . Utterly original . . . A unique, metaphysical, and surreal tale of a woman that seeks answers in a world that has so often betrayed her with silence.”―Asian Review of Books“In searching for answers to her husband’s untimely death, a young widow in Beijing finds room to explore her own existential angst . . . Yu’s original debut spins an increasingly surreal tale which brilliantly mirrors Jia Jia’s own discombobulation . . . Proof positive that rebirths are entirely possible―even in one lifetime.”―Kirkus Reviews“An’s poignant debut tells the story of a young woman tryin
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