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Book review: An Yu’s Sunbirth a surreal apocalypse tale that fails to shine
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Sunbirth is the third novel by Beijing-born author An Yu.
PHOTOS: JUSTIN LIM, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
By An Yu
Fiction/Harvill Secker/Hardcover/256 pages/$34.89
In the fictional village of Five Poems Lake, the sun has started to disappear. One morning, it looks like “half of an orange, rays oozing out from its cut side”. A few days later, it is “no longer a recognisable shape, more like a small red smudge”.
