"An elegant, dreamlike tale of a woman’s self-realisation in contemporary Beijing. Yu’s writing has an arresting, unadorned lyricism" - Francesca Carington, Daily Telegraph
"A seductive, sharply observed tale of love, loss and hope that moves from high-rise Beijing to rural Tibet and the mysterious, magical ‘world of water’" - Fanny Blake, Daily Mail
"A startlingly original imagination... Braised Pork is a sensitive portrait of alienated young womanhood as it is set free" - Shahidha Bari, Guardian
"Rich and strange … Braised Pork is a debut that gets under your skin" - Anthony Cummins, Observer
"Braised Pork is mesmerising, incisive and utterly disarming. An Yu writes beautifully about loneliness, the experience of isolation — from others, from one’s own past — and the possibility of human connection, however fragile." - Rosie Price
"So elegant and poised, so tuned to the great mysteries of love and loss. Like a breeze on a still day, An Yu’s is a voice I didn't know I needed until I felt it. Braised Pork is a major debut" - John Freeman
"Bold yet understated, Braised Pork is the debut of a supremely confident and gifted writer." - Katie Kitamura
"What a singular, slippery, transfixing novel this is. An Yu achieves a hypnotizing emotional clarity as she takes her narrator ever further from a stifling life in Beijing into a watery realm unlike any I've read before." - Idra Novey
"Yu’s novel has a cool, poised elegance that only adds to its enigmatic allure" - Economist
"A dizzying read… An Yu writes with style and in a way that is hard to resist" - Lucy Knight, Sunday Times
