"The day the sun died"

14-year-old Niannian lives in a small village in the mountains with his parents, who run a funeral parlor. Niannian describes himself as a nobody, but it is he who becomes the incorruptible chronicler of the uncanny events that haunt his village and take place over the course of an increasingly bizarre night...

YAN Linke has received numerous Chinese literary prizes, although some of his works are listed on the index of banned books in China. The author now lives in Beijing.

In cooperation with the Confucius Institute at the University of Freiburg and the Institute of Sinology at the University campus Freiburg.