OBSERVER
For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law,
AN YU
‘A melancholic, mysterious exploration of a young Beijing pianist grappling with family secrets, a distant husband and the meaning of music and expression’
together with sudden strange parcels and stranger dreams, to shake Song Yan from her malaise. Summoned to an ancient house in the heart of the city, can she find the notes she needs
‘There’s something here of early Murakami’s graceful, open-ended approach to the uncanny . . . Ghost Music is an evocative exploration of what it means to live fully’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Steeped in atmosphere . . . this playful, often surreal novel packs in plenty’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘An intriguing book that knits together music and life to touch on something profound’ GUARDIAN
VINTAGE
I S B N 978-1-529-11217-7
90000
£9.99
Penguin Random House penguin.co.uk/vintage
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781529 112177
GHOST MUSIC
to make sense of the pain and beauty in her life?
Cover: mushroom details courtesy of Alamy and Bridgeman Images; design © Suzanne Dean
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