{"product_id":"9780802161253","title":"Ghost Music","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the “original and electric” \u003ci\u003eBraised Pork\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e), An Yu’s enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFor three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan and begins her own campaign for a grandchild. As tension in the household rises, it becomes harder for Song Yan to keep her usual placid demeanor, especially since she is troubled by dreams of a doorless room she can’t escape, populated only by a strange orange mushroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhen a parcel of mushrooms native to her mother-in-law’s province is delivered seemingly by mistake, Song Yan sees an opportunity to bond with her, and as the packages continue to arrive every week, the women stir-fry and grill the mushrooms, adding them to soups and noodles. W\u003cspan\u003ehen a letter arrives in the mail from the sender of the mushrooms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Song Yan’s world begins to tilt further into the surreal. Summoned to an uncanny, seemingly ageless house hidden in a hutong that sits in the middle of the congested city, she finds Bai Yu, a once world-famous pianist who disappeared ten years ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA gorgeous and atmospheric novel of art and expression, grief and survival, memory and self-discovery, \u003ci\u003eGhost Music \u003c\/i\u003eanimates contemporary Beijing through the eyes of a lonely yet hopeful young woman and gives vivid color and texture to the promise of new beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"An Yu","offers":[{"title":"Grove\/Atlantic |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-11-24","offer_id":44230060867839,"sku":"9780802161253","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ee764b1d-bf06-4c25-86e6-545fd2e286b9.jpg?v=1700682298","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780802161253","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}