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Beschreibung
Places like this have a history. Desires. And this one is famished. Megan and her mom are on the run after narrowly escaping the clutches of an abusive man who dragged them from Portland to Beijing. With few options, Megan?s mom turns to an old friend who offers them room and board in Huihuang Opera Theater in exchange for cleaning the ancient building. Between her rusty Mandarin and constant reminders that she?s an outsider, Megan struggles with loneliness?until she meets Kristy, the glamorous young lead in the operatic adaptation of ?The Monkey King and the White Bone Demon?. Soon, Megan?s free time is split between reading a battered copy of the Chinese classic that inspired the opera and her budding new friendship; Kristy?s love of singing brings out Megan?s long-buried ambitions. But the opera house has its secrets. There are passages within the walls that shouldn?t be there, and the more Megan delves into that old book, the more the myths begin to bleed into real life. As Megan finds it increasingly difficult to separate reality from folklore, she must uncover a decades-old mystery to discover the true, horrifying secret of the opera house before it throws its hungry eyes to her.
Places like this have a history. Desires. And this one is famished. Megan and her mom are on the run after narrowly escaping the clutches of an abusive man who dragged them from Portland to Beijing. With few options, Megan?s mom turns to an old friend who offers them room and board in Huihuang Opera Theater in exchange for cleaning the ancient building. Between her rusty Mandarin and constant reminders that she?s an outsider, Megan struggles with loneliness?until she meets Kristy, the glamorous young lead in the operatic adaptation of ?The Monkey King and the White Bone Demon?. Soon, Megan?s free time is split between reading a battered copy of the Chinese classic that inspired the opera and her budding new friendship; Kristy?s love of singing brings out Megan?s long-buried ambitions. But the opera house has its secrets. There are passages within the walls that shouldn?t be there, and the more Megan delves into that old book, the more the myths begin to bleed into real life. As Megan finds it increasingly difficult to separate reality from folklore, she must uncover a decades-old mystery to discover the true, horrifying secret of the opera house before it throws its hungry eyes to her.
Über den Autor
Kelsea Yu is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Bound Feet and It?s Only a Game. She has over a dozen short stories and essays forthcoming or published in various magazines and anthologies. Find her on Instagram as [...] or visit her website [...].
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781835410394
ISBN-10: 1835410391
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Yu, Kelsea
Hersteller: Titan Publ. Group Ltd.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 206 x 141 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kelsea Yu
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2025
Gewicht: 0,258 kg
Artikel-ID: 134071003