Ghost Music

I love the unsettling, uncanny atmosphere of this wonderfully disturbing feminist novel about grief: Song Yan is haunted by her past dream of becoming a concert painist, which she traded for becoming a wife - music was her home, now she hopes her husband will be just that. But when her mother-in-law......more

The opening gripped me, the characters intrigued me, but the story just seemed to flop around and never amount to anything. I don't need a book to be grounded in a thesis or even a plot but I do need to have some assurance that the story isn't just drifting off as the wind blows, without an anchor.......more

What happens when you lose your identity? When your job doesn't reflect who you are and when you get no connection anymore with friends nor family? This existentialist crisis is what the protagonist Song is facing. She is a young woman trying to find her own self in the middle of Beijing. Her slow b......more

För tre år sedan förtrollades jag av Vegetarianen och den har fortfarande inte lämnat mig. Äntligen har jag i Efterklang hittat en lika feministisk, suggestiv och öppen roman som håller mig hänförd från första och troligen långt efter det sista ordet. An Yu bjuder in läsaren att vara del i den kreat......more

Wise. Beautiful. Human. “If I can’t even feel my existence, how could I possibly think about living?” “Empathy is a liar. It seduces us with the impression of selflessness.” “When we wake up, we hardly ever consciously acknowledge the pleasure of being able to live another day, do we?” “And he will unde......more