Drawing on traditional Malayan folklore and superstition, THE GHOST BRIDE is a haunting, exotic and romantic read perfect for fans of EMPRESS ORCHID and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA. Rarely practiced, traditional ghost marriages are used to. They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's only son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances.
But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. Enlisting the help of mysterious Er Lang (a dragon turned clerk) Li Lan must uncover the secrets of the ghost world – before she becomes trapped there forever. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. After a fateful visit to the Lim mansion, Li Lan finds herself haunted not only by her ghostly would-be suitor, but also her desire for the Lims’ handsome new heir.Īt night she is drawn into the Chinese afterlife – a world of ghost cities, paper funeral offerings, monstrous bureaucracy and vengeful spirits. by Bobbi Holmes (Author), Anna J McIntyre (Author), Elizabeth Mackey (Illustrator) & Format: Kindle Edition. “Bowls of toasted watermelon seeds were passed around, along with fanned slices of mango and papaya.A haunting, evocative and highly unusual romantic debut and now a Netflix Mandarin original drama premiering January 2020!Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition – the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The Ghost and the Bride (Haunting Danielle Book 14) Kindle Edition. Yangsze Choo (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1 time as ghost-bride) avg rating 3.80 30,696 ratings published 2013. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The Lim mansion is further out of town away from the close quarters of Jonker and Heeren Streets, where wealthy Chinese merchants had taken over old Dutch shophouses. avg rating 3.80 53,601 ratings published 2012. The town of Malacca was very still, dreaming under the tropical sun of its past glories…”
A long, low cluster of red-tiled houses, it straggled along the bay, flanked by groves of coconut trees and backed inland by the dense jungle that covered Malaya like a rolling green ocean. In the past few hundred years, it had passed through Portuguese, Dutch and finally British rule. “Malacca was a port, one of the oldest trading settlements in the East. Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. They live in the wealthiest part of Malacca The Lim family is the family Li Lan’s father wants to see her married into. Where the book opens and where the family lives. “It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures, we had acquired one another’s superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts”. In the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. The setting, background, history, superstitions and traditional beliefs of turn-of-the-century Malaya are what really shine in this story. Travel Guide Travel with Ghost Bride to Malacca
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