Ghost Music
From the author of the stylish cult hit Braised Pork
$23.54
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2024
Summary
For readers of early Murakami, a beautiful and uncanny novel of music, dreams and memory.
For three years, Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law, together with sudden strange parcels and stranger dreams, to shake Song Yan from her malaise. Summoned to an ancient house in the heart of the city, can she fi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529112176 |
| Author: | An Yu |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
An intriguing book that knits together music and life to touch on something profound * Guardian *Vivid descriptions of contemporary Beijing … Yu writes in clear, unadorned prose and deftly threads the magic-realist elements through the main narrative * Financial Times *Transporting, searching and poetic * List *This playful, often surreal novel packs in plenty … an elusive tale, steeped in atmosphere * Mail on Sunday *Ghost Music has beautiful prose and claustrophobic imagery that intensely evokes its protagonist’s alienation * New Statesman *Spellbinding and atmospheric … With its quiet, dreamy bending of reality and its precise depiction of many different strains of alienation, Ghost Music is an evocative exploration of what it means to live fully-and the potential consequences of failing to do so. Yu braids the mundane and the magical together with a gentle hand … There’s something here of early Murakami’s graceful, open-ended approach to the uncanny, as well as the vivid yet muted emotionality of Patrick Modiano or Katie Kitamura. Like these skillful portraitists of alienation, Yu conjures a visceral inbetweenness where the worlds of matter and spirit meet in a shared, suspended space – Alexandra Kleeman * New York Times Book Review *Startlingly original * Guardian on BRAISED PORK *Intensely atmospheric * LA Review of Books on BRAISED PORK *Otherwordly and deeply moving * BuzzFeed on BRAISED PORK *Real magic * LitHub on BRAISED PORK *
About The Author
An Yu
An Yu was born and raised in Beijing. She left at the age of eighteen to study in New York City. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English and lives in Hong Kong. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Braised Pork and Ghost Music.
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