Isbn: 9780007303397 - the hungry ghosts (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Hungry Ghosts This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 389 pages. Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui's 'Hungry Ghost' clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to b ecome a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is 12-year-ol d Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family's web of dark secrets and desperate lies, un leashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As s uccessive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She f lees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her port able 'Hungry Ghosts' have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is t o prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined. THE HUNGRY GHOSTSa r emarkable tour-de-force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characte rs whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleash ing unworldly spirits into the troubled air. …