- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 384
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781250175458
- Utgivelsesår: 2019
- Bidragsyter: Choo, Yangsze
The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
¿A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.¿ ¿Kirkus (starred review)
An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother¿s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.
Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master¿s dying wish: that Ren find the man¿s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master¿s soul will wander the earth forever.
As the days tick relentlessly by, a serie