The Ghost Bride

The Ghost Bride

by Yangsze Choo
The Ghost Bride

The Ghost Bride

by Yangsze Choo

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Ghost Bride is a stunning cross-genre historical exploration of period colonialism, a murder mystery, a speculative jaunt through life and death and all woven with gorgeous Chinese folklore.

Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese’s Book Club pick

Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists.

Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price?
 
Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family’s darkest secrets—and the truth about her own family.

Reminiscent of Lisa See’s Peony in Love and Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Ghost Bride is a wondrous coming-of-age story and from a remarkable new voice in fiction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062227386
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 08/06/2013
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 135,948
File size: 816 KB

About the Author

Yangsze Choo is a fourth-generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. She lives in California with her husband and their two children, and loves to eat and read (often at the same time).

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