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The Ghost Bride
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Artikel-Nr:
9781471400797
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2013
Seiten:
390
Autor:
Yangsze Choo
Gewicht:
297 g
Format:
195x126x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Yangsze Choo is a fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Due to a childhood spent in various countries such as Germany and Japan, she can eavesdrop (badly) in several languages. After graduating from Harvard University, she worked as a management consultant before writing her first novel. THE GHOST BRIDE, set in colonial Malaya and the elaborate Chinese world of the afterlife, is about a peculiar historic custom called a spirit marriage.Yangsze lives in California with her husband, two children, and a potential rabbit. She loves to eat and read, and often does both at the same time. You can follow her at yschoo.com or on Twitter: @yangszechoo.
'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.