The Day the Sun Died, Yan Lianke
The Day the Sun Died, Yan Lianke
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The Day the Sun Died

Author: Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 13 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2019

Synopsis

Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China’s most essential and daring novelist, “with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth” (New York Times Book Review). His novel, The Day the Sun Died—winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels—is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian and his parents run a funeral parlor. One evening, he notices a strange occurrence. Instead of preparing for bed, more and more neighbors appear in the streets and fields, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn’t already set. Li Niannian watches, mystified. As hundreds of residents are found dreamwalking, they act out the desires they’ve suppressed during waking hours. Before long, the community devolves into chaos, and it’s up to Li Niannian and his parents to save the town before sunrise. Set over the course of one increasingly bizarre night, The Day the Sun Died is a propulsive, darkly sinister tale from a world-class writer.

About Yan Lianke

Yan Lianke is the author of numerous story collections and novels, including The Years, Months, Days; The Explosion Chronicles, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International and PEN Translation Prize; The Four Books; Lenin’s Kisses; Serve the People!, and Dream of Ding Village. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, he was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina Étranger. He has received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike

In 2012, President Xi Jinping first talked about "the Chinese Dream", a concept that aims to translate the American Dream into Chinese cultural concepts and, by that, is meant to capture a specifically Chinese version of the strife for success, prosperity and happiness. Author Yan Lianke knows that......more

Goodreads review by Lark

Reading this novel is exactly like listening to someone tell you their dream, where it takes them about four hours to tell you the whole thing, and it is a well known fact that listening to someone tell you about their dream is never quite as interesting dreaming it yourself.......more

Goodreads review by Ron

Yan’s latest novel to be translated into English is a poetic nightmare called “The Day the Sun Died.” It’s the creepiest book I’ve read in years: a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse. The story takes place during a deadly summer night in a small village in central China. Our narrator......more

Goodreads review by mi.terapia.alternativa

Es una lectura que me ha atrapado desde el primer momento, me ha resultado ligera y muy entretenida a pesar de su crudeza y sobre todo llena de reflexiones sobre el mundo en el que vivimos, sobre lo absurdo y cruel de la naturaleza humana. Qué pasaría si algunos habitantes de un pueblo cayeran presa......more

Goodreads review by Julie Parks

The thing I love the most about this book is the title. It is exactly as suggestive and thought-provoking as the rest of the book. This isn't exactly a page-turner. Actually, the descriptive parts read almost like non-fiction or research paper. Yan Lianke really does transport you to an authentic Chi......more

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