Ghost Music

An intriguing book that knits together music and life to touch on something profound

An intriguing book that knits together music and life to touch on something profound

Vivid descriptions of contemporary Beijing ... Yu writes in clear, unadorned pros e and deftly threads the magic-realist elements through the main narrative

Transporting, searching and poetic

This playful, often surreal novel packs in plenty ... an elusive tale, steeped in atmosphere

Ghost Music has beautiful prose and claustrophobic imagery that intensely evokes its protagonist's alienation

Spellbinding and atmospheric . . . With its quiet, dreamy bending of reality and its precise depiction of many different strains of alienation, Ghost Music is an evocative exploration of what it means to live fully -and the potential consequences of failing to do so. Yu braids the mundane and the magical together with a gentle hand . . . There's something here of early Murakami's graceful, open-ended approach to the uncanny , as well as the vivid yet muted emotionality of Patrick Modiano or Katie Kitamura. Like these skillful portraitists of alienation, Yu conjures a visceral inbetweenness where the worlds of matter and spirit meet in a shared, suspended space

Startlingly original

Intensely atmospheric

Otherwordly and deeply moving

Real magic

An Yu was born and raised in Beijing. She left at the age of eighteen to study in New York City. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English and lives in Hong Kong. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Braised Pork and Ghost Music .