Incarnations (Barker) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1978
• Raised—London, England, U.K.
• Education—B.A., Leeds University; Manchester University
• Currently—lives in the U.K.


Susan Barker is a British novelist, the daughter of an English father and Chinese-Malaysian mother. She grew up in East London, studied at Leeds University, and undertook the graduate writing program at Manchester University. She writes primarily about Asia, and spent several years living in Beijing while working on The Incarnations (2014). She now lives in the U.K.

Novels
♦ 2005 - Sayonara Bar, which Time called "a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist;
♦ 2008 - The Orientalist and the Ghost, longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize;
♦ 2014 - The Incarnations, a tale of a modern Beijing taxi driver who is pursued by his soulmate across a thousand years of Chinese history.
(Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 1/3/2016.)