SUNBIRTH

As the sun starts slowly disappearing the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novelIn Five Poems Lake a town surrounded by impenetrable deserts the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps an apprehensive eye on the sky above as she tends her familys pharmacy of traditional medicine. She has few customers and even fewer visitors. Her father was found dead by the lake twelve years ago in unexplained circumstances. Her elder sister Dong Ji works at a wellness parlour across town for those who can afford it which during these strange and difficult days is not many.The town fell on hard times long before the sun began to shrink. But now as the temperature drops and the lake freezes over the inhabitants of the town realise there is no way they can survive. When the Beacons appear ordinary people with heads replaced by searing blinding light like miniature suns the residents wonder if they may hold the answer to their salvation or if they are just another sign of impending ruin. Soon Dong Ji and her sister will uncover a photograph which may offer a clue in the mystery of the Beacons and finally help them learn what happened to their father.PRAISE FOR AN YURich and wild it gets under your skin ObserverProfound GuardianA supremely confident and gifted writer Katie KitamuraBeautiful New StatesmanSeductive Daily MailSpellbinding New York TimesSteeped in atmosphere Mail on Sunday