Braised Pork

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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 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’ A startlingly original imagination... Braised Pork is a sensitive portrait of alienated young womanhood as it is set free Rich and strange … Braised Pork is a debut that gets under your skin 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. 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 Bold yet understated, Braised Pork is the debut of a supremely confident and gifted writer. 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. Yu’s novel has a cool, poised elegance that only adds to its enigmatic allure A dizzying read… An Yu writes with style and in a way that is hard to resist Expand reviews