It's intelligent, politically aware, sexy and, above all, spooky. "An elegant and original addition to the literature of subversion, alchemically blending the traditional Asian ghost story with the European gothic tradition. It is an enchanting whisper in the dark, a shadowy, sensuous call to revisit the demons that reside within the crevices of our ancestral memories." SUFFIAN HAKIM, author of #1 Straits Times Bestseller Harris Potter and the Stoned Philosopher and The Minorities I am so tempted to draw comparisons with Shirley Jackson, but Audrey Chin's novel is an inimitable beast of its own, seething behind some gorgeous imagery of post-colonial Southeast Asia. " The Ash House is everything I love about a gothic ghost story: intimate, familiar, yet deeply unsettling. Reader, prepare to be deliciously unsettled." YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR, award winning author of The Dragonfly Sea, Dust and Weight of Whispers The story is a riveting and sensuous voyage into drama and duality, love and betrayal, dreams and delusions, family and belonging.
"Audrey Chin weaves an intricate, startling matrix that does away with the gaps between the visible and invisible life forces influencing human choices. Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA ISBN: 9789814954273 Number of pages: 280 Weight: 1 g Dimensions: 1 x 1 x 1 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Who must be sacrificed? What must be left to turn to dust? Set in a 21st century Southeast Asian port city where spirits still linger, The Ash House weaves between the visible and invisible to tell the story of an overseas-Chinese merchant family haunted by the legacy of love gone wrong, with an ending both unexpected and heartbreaking. All will be well with Girl, the comatose maid he is obsessed with, Irene Tjoa his controlling aunt, and the Tjoa fortunes if Bing Fa is released from her doll-house prison.However, as the family's skeletons are unearthed, the nun realizes it is not in her power to save everyone or everything. Now, it is all drooping lintels and sagging roof a haunted house with a haunted heir in it-Arno Tjoa, a Barbie-doll fixated cripple whom Sister Mary Michael, the clairvoyant nun, has been sent to set free.Arno believes that Bing Fa-the fascinating spirit of a pipa-diva trapped in a ghost marriage to his grandfather-is the key to solving the misfortunes plaguing the house. The Tjoa ash house originally intended for ancestral tablets has stood at the top of Kota Cahaya's exclusive Green Hill for a century.
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