An Yu

An Yu is a Beijing-born, London-based author and visual artist whose fiction explores isolation, identity, and the surreal undercurrents of everyday life. Braised Pork is her debut novel, a hypnotic story about a young woman in Beijing whose life unravels after her husband's mysterious death, leading her on a strange, dreamlike quest for meaning. The novel blends realism with surrealism and has been praised for its haunting atmosphere and quiet power. Her audiobooks and books are mesmerising listening and reading for fans of literary fiction that uses the uncanny and the surreal to explore grief, freedom, and the search for self.