Author: An Yu
Reading “Ghost Music” by An Yu was like being in a fever dream because of the introspective and dreamlike telling of the story.
We follow Song Yan, a gifted pianist living in Beijing who abandoned her concert career to become a wife. Her days are shaped by absence as her husband becomes increasingly distant, often away for work, and unmoved by her desire to have a child.
What might have been a stable life reveals itself as something far more precarious, built on compromises that now feel irreversible to her.
Song moves through her marriage and her city with a growing sense of dislocation, aware that whatever choices she makes next will leave a permanent mark.
