Ghost Music

Startlingly original

Guardian on BRAISED PORK

Intensely atmospheric

LA Review of Books on BRAISED PORK

Otherwordly and deeply moving

BuzzFeed on BRAISED PORK

Real magic

LitHub on BRAISED PORK

Shimmering

Wall Street Journal on BRAISED PORK

Rich and wild

Observer on BRAISED PORK

Enchanting

Shelf Awareness on BRAISED PORK

Electric

TIME on BRAISED PORK

Transporting, searching and poetic

List

Vivid descriptions of contemporary Beijing ... Yu writes in clear, unadorned prose and deftly threads the magic-realist elements through the main narrative

Financial Times

This playful, often surreal novel packs in plenty ... an elusive tale, steeped in atmosphere

Mail on Sunday

Ghost Music has beautiful prose and claustrophobic imagery that intensely evokes its protagonist's alienation

New Statesman

An intriguing book that knits together music and life to touch on something profound

Guardian

Spellbinding and atmospheric . . . With its quiet, dreamy bending of reality and its precise depiction of many different strains of alienation, Ghost Music is an evocative exploration of what it means to live fully-and the potential consequences of failing to do so. Yu braids the mundane and the magical together with a gentle hand . . . There's something here of early Murakami's graceful, open-ended approach to the uncanny, as well as the vivid yet muted emotionality of Patrick Modiano or Katie Kitamura. Like these skillful portraitists of alienation, Yu conjures a visceral inbetweenness where the worlds of matter and spirit meet in a shared, suspended space

Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times Book Review