Summary
Sunbirth: A Desert Town Bathed in Shadow
As the sun slowly vanishes, a remote desert town grapples with shocking transformations in this bewitching novel.
In Five Poems Lake, a village isolated by endless deserts, the life-giving sun is dwindling. A young woman, tending her family’s traditional medicine pharmacy, watches the sky with growing unease. Customers are scarce, visitors even rarer. Twelve years ago, her father was found dead by the lake, the circumstances shrouded …
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: | 14 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 321g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm x 25mm |
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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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