Ань Юй — новинки

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor, especially since she is troubled by dreams of a doorless room she can’t escape, populated only by a strange orange mushroom.

When a parcel of mushrooms native to her mother-in-law’s province is delivered seemingly by mistake, Song Yan sees an opportunity to bond with her, and as the packages continue to arrive every week, the women stir-fry and grill the mushrooms, adding them to soups and noodles. When a letter arrives in the mail from the sender of the mushrooms, Song Yan’s world begins to tilt further into the surreal. Summoned to an uncanny, seemingly ageless house hidden in a hutong that sits in the middle of the congested city, she finds Bai Yu, a once world-famous pianist who disappeared ten years ago.

«Тушёная свинина» – дебют американской писательницы Ань Юй, сразу привлекший внимание медиа и получивший положительные отклики. Это роман, повествующий о духовном путешествии китайской художницы, оказавшейся в непростом положении после смерти мужа. С художественной точностью Ань Юй пишет картины современных Пекина и Тибета, зачаровывающие и сюрреалистичные. Она проведёт вас в загадочный мир воды, из которого почти невозможно найти выход…

Удивительно гармоничные, завораживающие картины Востока предстают перед нами в этой книге. Объятый смогом Пекин оставит привкус сюрреалистичности, а тюльпанные поля ночного Тибета зачаруют своей таинственной, мифологической красотой. Все началось в тот день, когда Цзяцзя обнаружила своего мужа утонувшим в ванне. Жене после него остались пустая квартира и набросок загадочного рыбочеловека, того, что явился мужу во сне во время путешествия в Тибет. И Цзязя уверена, что именно это существо по ночам вводит ее в пугающий, но такой притягательный мир воды… Одна, потерявшая почву под ногами, Цзяцзя отправится в путь, чтобы наконец отыскать себя.

One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband - with whom she had been breakfasting barely an hour before - dead in the bathtub. Next to him a piece of paper unfolds like the wings of a butterfly, and on it is an image that Jia Jia can't forget.

Profoundly troubled by what she has seen, even while she is abruptly released from a marriage that had constrained her, Jia Jia embarks on a journey to discover the truth of the sketch. Starting at her neighbourhood bar, with its brandy and vinyl, and fuelled by anger, bewilderment, curiosity and love, Jia Jia travels deep into her past in order to arrive at her future.

Braised Pork is a cinematic, often dreamlike evocation of nocturnal Beijing and the high plains of Tibet, and an exploration of myth-making, loss, and a world beyond words, which ultimately sees a young woman find a new and deeper sense of herself.

One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing apartment. Next to him is a piece of folded paper, a sketch of a strange creature from his dream.

He has left her no other sign. Young, alone, and with many unanswered questions, Jia Jia sets out on a journey.

Starting at her neighbourhood bar, fuelled by anger, bewilderment, curiosity and love, she travels from nocturnal Beijing to the high plains of Tibet, deep into her past in order to arrive at her future. Cinematic, often dreamlike, Braised Pork is an exploration of myth-making, loss, and a world beyond words, which ultimately sees a young woman find a new and deeper sense of herself.