The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo
Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition - the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The only problem is, he's dead. After a fateful visit to the Lim mansion, Li Lan finds herself haunted not only by her ghostly would-be suitor, but also her desire for the Lims' handsome new heir. At night she is drawn into the Chinese afterlife - a world of ghost cities, paper funeral offerings, monstrous bureaucracy and vengeful spirits. Enlisting the help of mysterious Er Lang (a dragon turned clerk) Li Lan must uncover the secrets of the ghost world - before she becomes trapped there forever.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9781471400780
- Genre
- FantasyRomantasy
- Topics
- Chinese afterlife and folkloreArranged marriage with a ghostRomance and family duty
Awards
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult LiteratureShortlisted(2014)
- Shirley Jackson Award for Best NovelShortlisted(2013)
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