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Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary Chinas most essential and daring novelist, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Diedwinner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novelsis 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 hadnt already set. Li Niannian watches, mystified. As hundreds of residents are found dreamwalking, they act out the desires theyve suppressed during waking hours. Before long, the community devolves into chaos, and its 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.

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; Lenins 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 Chinas most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.