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The Ghost Bride

Autor Yangsze Choo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2013
'One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride...' In 1890s Malaya, seventeen-year-old Li Lan receives an unusual proposal: marriage to the recently dead son of the esteemed Lim family. Li Lan knows what this means for her impoverished father. She has to consider it carefully. The Lims' wealth and grandeur is dizzying, but Li Lan has set her sights on another - surely she has to be certain of her heart's true desire before committing to life with a ghost? Night after night, Li Lan finds herself drawn into another world. One where boundaries between reality and dreams are blurred, and where the afterlife shows itself to be a place of terror. temptation.. and delight. Li Lan must uncover the mysteries of the ghost world, and be united with her true love, before she is trapped there for all time. A haunting, exotic and romantic ghost story.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781471400797
ISBN-10: 1471400794
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Hot Key Books

Public țintă

12+

Descriere

A haunting, evocative and highly unusual romantic debutSeventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition - the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son.

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A wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists
Malaya, 1893 Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt Chinese family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives a proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's only son, who died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, ghost marriages are often meant to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a comfortable home for the rest of her days, but at what cost?
As she reluctantly considers the offer, Li Lan is unwillingly drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, with its ghost cities and vengeful spirits. There Li Lan must uncover the Lim family's darkest secrets—and the truth about her own family—before she is trapped in this ghostly world forever.

Recenzii

“Choo’s clear and charming style creates an alternate reality where the stakes are just as high as in the real world, combining grounded period storytelling with the supernatural.” — Publishers Weekly
“Captivating epic . . . [this] impressive first novel takes readers on one of the wildest rides since Alice fell down the rabbit hole.” — San Jose Mercury News
“Choo’s remarkably strong and arresting first novel…is sure to garner much well-deserved attention.” — Booklist
“Choo’s fascinating debut . . . rich in Chinese folklore, mores and the supernatural…intriguing and enlightening. A haunting debut.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Li Lan’s odyssey keeps her on the brink of earthly demise and keeps the reader riveted to the page . . .” — New York Journal of Books
“Delicate and thought-provoking . . . sure to be a hit with supernatural and historical fiction fans alike.” — Library Journal
“Unlike any book I’ve ever experienced, with its meld of historical fiction coupled with a fascinating culture, murder mystery, the wandering of spirits of the dead and not-so-dead, romance, and adventures in the afterworld . . . one revelatory experience after another.” — Bookreporter.com

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