Braised Pork
Braised Pork
Yu, An
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780802148728, Publication Date: Thu, April 1, 2021, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
2

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 English

One 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.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

Make War

by Marker, Jacquelyn

Paperback /Paperback

$15.18

The Art of Her Life

by Martin, Cynthia Newberry

Paperback /Paperback

$14.21

Air Traffic: A Memoir of ...

by Pardlo, Gregory

Paperback /Paperback

$12.71

listens & views

4 ROUND

by BUGSY,STOMY

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$15.99

BATTLE & VICTORY

by ELIZABETH,NANCY

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$7.25

BORROWED TIME (JPN)

by KHAN,STEVE

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$21.99

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.
promoting relevance through notable postings ]
share it, buy it, sell it ]

A notem is a post that highlights an experience, idea, topic of interest, an event ... whatever a member believes worthy of discussion. Each notem becomes a pathway by which to make meaningful connections.

notems is a free, global social network that rewards members by the number and quality of notems they post.

notemote® © . Privacy Policy. Developed by Hartmann Software Group