{"product_id":"ghost-music","title":"Ghost Music","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrom the author of the “original and electric” \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBraised Pork\u003c\/span\u003e (\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gorgeous and atmospheric novel of art and expression, grief and survival, memory and self-discovery, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGhost Music\u003c\/span\u003e animates contemporary Beijing through the eyes of a lonely yet hopeful young woman and gives vivid color and texture to the promise of new beginnings.","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42866755141712,"sku":"9780802161253B","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780802161253-l.jpg?v=1788267253","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/ghost-music","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}