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Braised PorkAn Yu

Braised Pork

2020240 pages
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"One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia's mind and won't leave. The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its high-rise apartments to its hidden bars, as her path crosses some of the people who call the city…

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7 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2021
    Grove Press · 240 pages · 9780802148728
  • Audiobook · English · 2020
    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664490215
  • Hardcover · English · 2020
    Grove Press · 240 pages · 9780802148711
  • Other · English · 2021
    Penguin Random House · 9781529112160
  • Other · English · 2020
    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802148735
  • Other · English · 2020
    Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781787301870
Fiction, generalBeijing (china), fictionEnglish literatureFiction, womenWidows, fictionNew York Times reviewedMarried womenFiction