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Winner of the
2003
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Winner of a 2002 Betty Trask
Award.
Washington Post's Top
Reads of 2001
From a spellbinding
storyteller comes a luscious novel set in contemporary rural China
that explores the tumult of life post-Tiananmen Square.
'A
minor masterpiece…reading it is like discovering an early novel by
D.H. Lawrence. It has strength and gentleness combined…it's
the most compulsively readable novel set in modern China I've ever
read…Hill has all the hallmarks of a major writer. We will be
hearing a lot more of him, and with luck before very long.'
Taipei
Times
'The Drink
and Dream Teahouse is full of fascinating insight into the
character of the Chinese people. This novel records a period of
profound change in China, of course, but Justin Hill isn't naïve
enough to draw that like a fault-line through the story. He
understands, like Tolstoy, that human nature cannot change along
with the times.'
The Independent on Sunday
From a spellbinding
storyteller comes a luscious novel set in contemporary rural China
that explores the tumult of life post-Tiananmen Square.
Here is an
assured, full-bodied first book of poetry from an ward-winning,
immensely gifted young writer. Her compelling explorations of
inheritance and belonging, history and loss are nuanced and
novelistic in scope, peopled with vivid voices and characters -- the
lost sailor on Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition; the drunken
Irish poets marking the untimely death of a young writer; the sullen
man who burns the hens in the yard along with his wife's wedding
dress; the four friends reeling ecstatically through a field at
night, searching for a lost pint glass and toasting the dawn.
Into the Early Hours presents us with a powerful, passionate
poet of great strength and originality -- a brilliant time-traveler
who conjures the past so well she makes it present, and whose
insight and skill herald the future.
London Review of Books
Asian Review of Books
RTE
January Magazine
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Passing
Under Heaven
A
Bend in the Yellow River