{"product_id":"ghost-music","title":"Ghost Music","description":"\u003cp\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. When a letter arrives in the mail from the sender of the mushrooms, 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\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48098027405501,"sku":"BS-TC0-161253","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780802161253-HD.jpg?v=1787001765","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/ghost-music","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}