Details:
- author: An Yu
- full title: Ghost Music
- narrator: Vera Chok
- genre: literary fiction
- topics: #music, #family
- publisher: Recorded Books
- publish date: 10 Jan 2023
- timing: 6:00:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙.5
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My Thoughts:
Song Yan lives in Beijing with her husband, Bowen, and her mother-in-law. She could have been a concert pianist, but she left music college. Now, Song Yan is a piano teacher. She is not particularly happy because her husband is often absent, and she doesn’t get along with her mother-in-law.
I wanted to read this novel for a while now. But unfortunately, it wasn’t as good as I expected it would be. First thing, Son Yan is very passive. This could be fine, but the story seemed to unfold with no real purpose.
I often read literary fiction, Asian authors, and I love a really good surreal novel, but this one was only ok. It is one of those novels I will quickly forget because I didn’t see the real meaning.
About the Author:
An Yu (安於) was born and raised in Beijing, and spent parts of her life studying and working in London, New York, and Paris. She received her MFA from New York University and writes her fiction in English. She is the author of the novels Braised Pork (2020) and Ghost Music (2022). Her writing has also appeared in The Sunday Times Style, Freeman’s, Literary Hub, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
She currently lives in Hong Kong.
