Ghost Music

Name: Ghost Music
Rating: 4.1 (5 reviews)
Author: Ань Юй
ISBN: 9780802159625

Ань Юй

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to ke...

Издательство:

Grove Press

ISBN:

9780802159625

Год издания:

2023

Язык:

Английский

Возрастные ограничения:

18+

Критика

MAYA FLEISHMANN, BOOKPAGE

"Ethereal ... Beautifully metaphoric and insightful. Song Yan’s first-person narrative reveals the full richness of her mind and senses, which have been stifled by her fear of shame and the disregard of her husband and mother-in-law. Throughout this haunting social commentary, Yu’s lyrical language and atmospheric descriptions bring out the contrast between Song Yan’s oppressive, superficial reality and the hypnotic world where she converses with fungi."

KIRKUS

"A semisurreal novel that contrasts the immediacy of daily life in Beijing with a mesmerizing dreamscape ... A mood of yearning and a search for emotional freedom drive this simply told yet enigmatic story that includes bursts of imaginative flare, often lit by an orange glow. Intimate, melancholic, unresolved—perhaps frustratingly so for some readers—yet hopeful, Yu’s story offers a restless female perspective working toward clarity. Dreamy and questioning, an unsettling novel composed of wistful notes."