The Incarnations

<p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year<br>Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize<br><br>'Reads as China's <i>Midnight's Children</i>. Utterly remarkable' </b> <i>INDEPENDENT</i><br>'<b>A kaleidoscopically imaginative novel' </b><i>THE NEW YORKER</i><br><b>'Mesmerising storytelling' </b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><br><br><b><i>I dream of us across the centuries ...</i></b><br><br><b>Beijing</b> 2008 the Olympics are coming but as taxi driver Wang circles the city's congested streets he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. He is being warned: Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.<br><br>Other letters follow taking Wang back in time: to a spirit-bride in the Tang Dynasty; to young slaves during the Mongol invasion; to concubines plotting to kill the emperor; to a kidnapping in the Opium War; and to Red Guards during the Cultural revolution.<br><br>And with each letter Wang feels the watcher in the shadows growing closer ...<br>__________________________________<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR SUSAN BARKER</b>:<br><br>'[A] kaleidoscopically imaginative novel...Barker stitches together an unnervingly perceptive portrait of China and of the enduring influence that its past has on the present' <i><b>THE NEW YORKER</b></i><br><br>'A thrilling journey through a thousand years of obsession and betrayal this is the most extraordinary work of imagination you'll read all year'<b> ADAM JOHNSON Winner of the PULITZER Prize for Fiction </b><br><br>'Erudite intriguing and compulsively readable Susan Barker a born story-teller has written one of the most remarkable novels of recent years' <b>JOHN BOYNE</b><br><br>'A brilliant mind-expanding and wildly original novel' <b>CHRIS CLEAVE</b><br><br>'A hallucinatory ride. Highly recommend'<b> ANNA HOPE</b></p>