num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Braised Pork
publisher: Harvill Secker