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Ghost music : a novel / An Yu.

by Yu, An, 1992-

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Grove Press, 2023.

Musicians -- Fiction.

Mushrooms -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Women pianists -- Fiction.

Beijing (China) -- Fiction.

9780802159625 (hc.)

1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.

226 p. ; 22 cm.

"First published in 2022 in Great Britain by Harvill Secker"--T.p. verso.

"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 keep her usual placid demeanor, especially since she is troubled by dreams of a doorless room she can't escape, populated only by a strange orange mushroom. When a parcel of mushrooms native to her mother-in-law's province is delivered seemingly by mistake, Song Yan sees an opportunity to bond with her, and as the packages continue to arrive every week, the women stir-fry and grill the mushrooms, adding them to soups and noodles. When a letter arrives in the mail from the sender of the mushrooms, Song Yan's world begins to tilt further into the surreal. Summoned to an uncanny, seemingly ageless house hidden in a hutong that sits in the middle of the congested city, she finds Bai Yu, a once world-famous pianist who disappeared ten years ago. A gorgeous and atmospheric novel of art and expression, grief and survival, memory and self-discovery, Ghost Music animates contemporary Beijing through the eyes of a lonely yet hopeful young woman and gives vivid color and texture to the promise of new beginnings"--Provided by publisher.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

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