"Brewed Pork" is the debut of American writer An Yu, which immediately attracted the attention of the media and received positive reviews. This is a novel that tells the story of the spiritual journey of a Chinese artist who finds herself in a difficult situation after the death of her husband. With artistic precision, An Yu paints pictures of modern Beijing and Tibet that are enchanting and surreal. It will take you into the mysterious world of water, from which it is almost impossible to find a way out... Read in the new “Eastern Series”: a collection of the world’s best novels about the East. Surprisingly harmonious, mesmerizing pictures of the East appear before us in this book. Smog-covered Beijing will leave a taste of surreality, and the tulip fields of night Tibet will enchant you with their mysterious, mythological beauty. It all started on the day when Jiajia discovered her husband drowned in the bathtub. His wife was left with an empty apartment and a sketch of a mysterious fish-man, the one who appeared to her husband in a dream during a trip to Tibet. And Jiajia is sure that it is this creature that introduces her at night into the frightening, but so attractive world of water... Alone, having lost the ground under her feet, Jiajia will set off on a journey to finally find herself. “The war of position between tradition and modernity in modern Chinese society, the desire for happiness and the right to happiness, a metaphorical reflection on freedom and unfreedom, expressed through the mystical - this is the essence of An Yu’s novel.” Maxim Mamlyga, Esquire