The Incarnations

Name: The Incarnations
Author: Susan Barker
ISBN: 9781501106798

Susan Barker

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The Incarnations

Susan Barker

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The Incarnations won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015. A Beijing taxi driver receives mysterious letters from someone claiming to be his soulmate. The letters reveal stories of Wang's previous lives over one thousand years—from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride, to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan, to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars, and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution—bound to his mysterious "soulmate," spanning one thousand years of betrayal and intrigue. As the letters continue to appear seemingly out of thin air, Wang becomes convinced that someone is watching him—someone who claims to have known him for over a century. And with each letter, Wang feels the watcher growing closer and closer. Seamlessly weaving Chinese folklore, history, literary classics, and the notion of reincarnation, this is a taut and gripping novel that reveals the cyclical nature of history as it hints that the past is never truly settled.

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