Lost in Iceland

Lost in Iceland was my first self-published novel — a quiet success in China when it came out in 2020.

For me it was never only a novel. The whole book was a designed object: I was deeply involved in the cover's visual direction, and the illustrations inside — together with the hand-redrawn maps of the locations the story passes through — I made with a friend.

So it's not just a piece of text. It's a work where design and illustration are inseparable from the writing. And the story itself is one I love — true to a stubborn belief of mine: write the book you'd want to read.