The ghost bride, Yangsze Choo
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The ghost bride, Yangsze Choo
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The ghost bride
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Yangsze Choo
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The daughter of a respectable family that has lost its fortune, Li Lan has few suitors. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the Lim family, the city's wealthiest clan. They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances. A rare historic custom among Malaysian Chinese, a ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what cost? Yangsze Choo is a fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. "The Ghost Bride" is her first novel
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