The Funeral Cryer

An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this wry and moving tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.

About the author

Originally from Shanghai, China, Wenyan Lu is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2020. Wenyan holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Her unpublished historical novel The Martyr's Hymn was also longlisted for SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018 and Bridport First Novel Prize 2019.

Summary

An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this wry and moving tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.

Foreword

An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this wry and moving tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.

Product details

• Authors: Wenyan Lu
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2023
• EAN: 9781838957551
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-755-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction