Author: Xiaolu Guo
London: Chatto & Windus 2006; 200 pages
London: Chatto & Windus 2006; 200 pages
On a mundane evening in rural China, Kwok Yun is riding her bike home through fields of rice when her world is turned upside down. She spots a strange, plate-like object hovering in the sky, and an injured foreigner.
Seeing an opportunity to raise his village’s visibility, the chief announces the happenings to his government and the world, turning Kwok Yun into a minor celebrity and bringing an uncomfortable amount of surveillance and attention from National Security. Finding inspiration from Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” and Kurosawa’s “Roshomon”, Xiaolu Guo writes a satire on the effect of radical political change in modern China.
In 2011, Xiaolu Guo wrote and directed a film based on her novel.
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