![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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. In it, Yangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride) weaves together ancient Malayan superstitions and traditions to tell a story of missing fingers, man-eating tigers. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. With unfortunate events that beset Mayen's (Kim Chiu) family, she will be torn between living a normal yet difficult life or accepting a strange business proposal called the Ghost Wedding in exchange for wealth and a comfortable life for her. 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. After receiving an unusual business proposal, a young woman experiences strange phenomena. Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. ![]()
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