Bøger af An Yu

En moderne kinesisk roman om kunst, ensomhed og håb fuld af musik og mystik – og svampe.Den unge klaverlærer Song Yan opgav sin karriere som koncertpianist, da hun blev gift. Nu vil hendes mand også slukke hendes drøm om at få et barn. I lejlighedens ekstra værelse må Song Yan i stedet huse sin svigermor, der er flyttet til Beijing fra provinsen, og som bringer glemte familiehemmeligheder og en vis portion skepsis med sig. En dag dukker der en mystisk pakke op indeholdende nogle delikate og sjældne svampe. Da Song Yan modtager flere pakker og efter nogen tid også et brev fra afsenderen af svampene, begynder hendes verden at blive mere og mere surrealistisk. Brevet leder hende på sporet af Bai Yu, en engang verdensberømt pianist, der forsvandt på gådefuld vis ti år tidligere. Efterklang er en fortryllet roman, der vækker et på én gang moderne og magisk Beijing til live i portrættet af en ung kvinde og hendes søgen efter en ny begyndelse. ”En stemningsfuld udforskning af, hvad det betyder at leve livet fuldt ud.” — The New York Times “Overjordisk … Smukt metaforisk og indsigtsfuld.” — Booklist

A gorgeous Beijing-set novel of music, secrets and self-discovery For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan's dreams become troubling and claustrophobic. Striking out alone through the winter city, she finds herself pulled into the ancient hutongs to confront the source of her unease. In a silent room within a timeless house, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of all the pain and beauty in her life?Praise for Braised Pork:'Startlingly original' Guardian'Intensely atmospheric' LA Review of Books'Otherworldly and deeply moving' BuzzFeed 'Real magic' LitHub'Shimmering' Wall Street Journal'Rich and wild' Observer'Enchanting' Shelf Awareness'Electric' TIME

Cinematic and delicately beautiful, Braised Pork is an exploration of myth-making, connection, a world beyond words, and of a young woman's search deep into her past, in order to arrive at her future. **A STYLIST BEST BOOK OF 2020**