1787301885 
Hardback Ghost music / An Yu.
Publication year: 2022
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : Harvill Secker,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781787301887 (hbk.) :
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When Song Yan's mother-in-law moves into the apartment she shares with her new husband Bowen, their carefully calibrated life is overturned. Family secrets are uncovered - a disappeared sister, a former wife; family plans are put on hold - can they possibly try for a child in these circumstances? Trapped and disorientated, Song Yan begins to question whether she knows anything at all about the man she chose to marry. He, in turn, withdraws from her completely. When mysterious parcels of mushrooms begin to arrive on the doorstep, purporting to arrive from a virtuoso pianist, Bai Yu, whom everyone had believed to be dead, Song Yan seizes on the invitation to track him down.
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256 pages ; 23 cm
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I'm afraid I didn't get this novel at all. I'm usually happy with surreal or supernatural elements in a book, but I have no idea what the orange mushrooms, disappearing pianist and other oddities were meant to signify. I also didn't find the central character engaging and couldn't summon up much interest in what was going on in her life. A boring and disappointing read for me.
28/12/22