Summary
Sunbirth: A Desert Town Under a Vanishing Sun
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 customer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787304970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787304973 |
| Author: | An Yu |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill Secker |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 424g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 145mm x 30mm |
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There’s something here of early Murakami’s graceful, open-ended approach to the uncanny… an evocative exploration of what it means to live fully * New York Times Book Review on GHOST MUSIC *
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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