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Braised Pork: A Novel
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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 halffull 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 Jias mind and wont leave.The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its highrise 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 middleclass urban China, An Yus Braised Pork explores the intimate strangeness of grief, the indelible mysteries of unseen worlds, and the energizing selfdiscovery of a newly empowered young woman.
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