UFO in Her Eyes

by Xiaolu Guo
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A tale of the unexpected from Orange Prize shortlisted Xiaolu Guo

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Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing – a spinning plate in the sky – and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. It’s not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surveillance…

Editorial Reviews

"Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry" - The Times

"An entertaining read with a distinctive voice - and her most ambitious work yet" - Financial Times

"The novel resonates in revelations of loss and pain" - Guardian

"A fast moving, barbed polemic...a writer to read, a writer who makes every word count" - Irish Times

"A breath of the freshest air imaginable. She cuts through the smog of hype and platitude" - Boyd Tonkin, Independent

"draws national intelligence...reality-like fiction" - Christophe Chataigne, Socialist Review

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