{"product_id":"ghost-music-9780802161253","title":"Ghost Music","description":"\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\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.When 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.A 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN YU\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBraised Pork\u003c\/i\u003e. She was born and raised in Beijing and 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. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50585053167890,"sku":"9780802161253","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee435b84-de2f-4e28-8781-d8a96c2a98d1.jpg?v=1732036636","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ghost-music-9780802161253","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}