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Touchstone
April 2017
On Sale: April 11, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 1476795789
EAN: 9781476795782
Kindle: B01HMXUYEE
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Fiction
An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway
finalist Vaddey Ratner. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for
the first time since her harrowing escape as a child
refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously
signs himself as “the Old Musician” and claims to have known
her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared
twenty-five years ago. In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where
perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live
side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country.
She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart,
immerses herself in long-buried memories and prepares to
learn her father’s fate. Meanwhile, the Old Musician, who earns his modest keep
playing ceremonial music at a temple, awaits Teera’s visit
with great trepidation. He will have to confess the bonds he
shared with her parents, the passion with which they all
embraced the Khmer Rouge’s illusory promise of a democratic
society, and the truth about her father’s end. A love story for things lost and things restored, a lyrical
hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts
is an unforgettable journey through the embattled geography
of the heart and its hidden chambers where love can be reborn.
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