Summary
As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novel.
In Five Poems Lake, a small village surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps an apprehensive eye on the sky above as she tends her family’s pharmacy of traditional medicine. She has few customers, and even fewer visitors. Her father was found dead by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787304987 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787304981 |
| Author: | An Yu |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill Secker |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 321g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm x 25mm |
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Evocative… vibrant despite a mounting sense of loss… thrilling and unexpected * New York Times *An arresting story … Confirms Yu’s mastery of the mesmerizing and strange * Publishers Weekly *Yu’s new book abounds with evocative images and haunting moral choices * Reactor Magazine *Enthralling and surreal … an illuminating novel about what people choose to preserve at the end of the world * Foreword Magazine *Dizzying . . expertly deploying speculative elements to examine identity, grief and existential longing with sublime emotional impact … richly atmospheric … Sunbirth is a surreal masterpiece to ponder with pleasure * BookPage *Offers elements of magical realism and explores themes of sisterhood and grief while it unfolds an unusual premise … Yu excels at creating the setting, described in precise detail, and at crafting a character-driven reading experience * Library Journal *
About The Author
An Yu
An Yu was born and raised in Beijing. She left at the age of eighteen to study in New York City. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English and lives in Hong Kong. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Braised Pork and Ghost Music.
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