Ghost Wife

Author : Yangsze Choo
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062227386

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The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo Pdf

Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese’s Book Club pick Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family’s darkest secrets—and the truth about her own family. Reminiscent of Lisa See’s Peony in Love and Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Ghost Bride is a wondrous coming-of-age story and from a remarkable new voice in fiction.

Author : Michelle Dicinoski
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921870873

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Ghost Wife by Michelle Dicinoski Pdf

Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life, and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she’s in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when love and the law collide? For Michelle, the answer is clear: go to Canada and get hitched there. Ghost Wife is the deep, funny, heartwarming and brave story of that trip. Along the way, Michelle reflects on why anyone would want to get married anyway, on the power of acceptance, and on the startling stories she uncovers in her family’s past. She investigates the hidden worlds of people who live their lives outside social norms, sometimes illegally. Michelle doesn’t want to disappear, not from her family and not from society. But living in Australia, will she always be a ghost wife? ‘The story of two young women who love each other, Ghost Wife makes their love visible and uncovers the lives of hidden lovers on the two continents over which they travel. Moving, irresistible and new, this memoir will inspire readers to honour all that is hidden in the past – and within ourselves.’ —Gloria Steinem ‘Ghost Wife is a revelation in every sense of the word. It not only illuminates the struggle for equal marriage in the most intimate possible way, but also tenderly examines the meaning of love and commitment. Insightful, supple and gorgeously written, this book left me humbled and moved.’ —Benjamin Law ‘A powerful and deeply moving book.’ —Australian Book Review ‘Ghost Wife is a contemplative memoir, but it is also funny and warm-hearted. A paean to the ritual of marriage, Ghost Wife goes to the heart of what it is to be human: love and commitment, friendship and intimacy, shared values and shared struggle.’ —Australian ‘Resonant and engaging’ —Big Issue ‘Poignant and moving, the prose clear-eyed and affecting all at once.’ —Age Michelle Dicinoski’s poetry collection Electricity for Beginners was published in 2011. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Australian Literary Review, The Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, the Australian and Cultural Studies Review.

Author : Xiao Sanpangzi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648468421

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Ghost Wife At Home by Xiao Sanpangzi Pdf

Picking up corpses was not about the crematorium collecting corpses. It referred to the people who were drunk at the entrance of the nightclub. It was commonly known as Picking up corpses. I was a part-time nightclub waiter, but picking up corpses was another job for me, though not every time I picked up "corpses" they were drunk living people. Sometimes they really were.

Author : Yue LaiYueHao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636456782

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My Ghost Wife by Yue LaiYueHao Pdf

My name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl ...

Author : Qing YangWanXi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636890524

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Mysterious CEO's Ghost Wife by Qing YangWanXi Pdf

She had been killed by others in her previous life and had been reborn with a mysterious bloodline. She was able to see all sorts of different spirits and was prepared to take revenge. However, she always met a perverted man who liked to knock her out and roll in bed with him alone ...

Author : Yau-Woon Ma,Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0887270719

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Traditional Chinese Stories by Yau-Woon Ma,Joseph S. M. Lau Pdf

For centuries the Chinese referred to their fiction as xiaoshuo, etymologically meaning roadside gossip or small talk, and held it in relative disregard.

Author : Ryan LeBlanc
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312258532

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Aijin - Dragur Stulka (My Ghost wife and lover...Ana) by Ryan LeBlanc Pdf

Author : An WuZhi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649487551

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Urban Ghost Slayer by An WuZhi Pdf

He was born with a pair of dark and positive eyes. His Yin ability allowed him to understand the world's ghosts while his Yang ability allowed him to understand the evils of the human heart.

Author : Susan Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798223219903

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The Ghost Wife by Susan Price Pdf

"You love me, don't you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You'd better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jonathan. But he's already married. To a vengeful ghost. "I love you to death."

Author : Sanna Lehtonen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476601939

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Girls Transforming by Sanna Lehtonen Pdf

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.

Author : Lawrence Thornton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520220683

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Ghost Woman by Lawrence Thornton Pdf

Ghost Woman explores the history and tragedy of colonialization in California through the life of a remarkable Native American woman.

Author : Richard Marsh
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027248698

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Tom Ossington's Ghost (Horror Thriller) by Richard Marsh Pdf

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Madge and Ella are two young ladies who have taken up residence at Clover Cottage, the former home of Tom Ossington, a house that has long stood empty with a bad reputation for being haunted. Not believing in such things, Madge and Ella rented it and lived there for about six weeks, when a strange woman showed up claiming that the house belongs to her, and that her husband, the landlord, is a ghost.

Author : Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher : august house
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 087483712X

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Tales to Frighten and Delight by Pleasant DeSpain Pdf

A collection of scary folktales from around the world.

Author : Scott Brewster,Luke Thurston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317288930

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The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story by Scott Brewster,Luke Thurston Pdf

The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

Author : Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824830915

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The Phantom Heroine by Judith T. Zeitlin Pdf

Zeitlin's study centers on the seventeenth century, one of the most interesting and creative periods of Chinese literature and politically one of the most traumatic, witnessing the overthrow of the Ming, the Manchu conquest, and the subsequent founding of the Qing. Drawing on fiction, drama, poetry, medical cases, and visual culture, the author departs from more traditional literary studies, which tend to focus on a single genre or author. Ranging widely across disciplines, she integrates detailed analyses of great literary works with insights drawn from the history of medicine, art history, comparative literature, anthropology, religion, and performance studies. The Phantom Heroine probes the complex literary and cultural roots of the Chinese ghost tradition. Zeitlin is the first to address its most remarkable feature: the phenomenon of verse attributed to phantom writers - that is, authors actually reputed to be spirits of the deceased. This book should appeal to readers interested in Chinese studies, gender studies, comparative literature, performance studies, the history of religion, and of course, ghost stories and the occult