- Description
- 388 pages : color map; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can't escape the curse that afflicts them--their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family's luck seems to change--or does it? Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she's a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur"--
- Subject
- Murder > Fiction
- Missing persons > Fiction
- Foxes > Fiction
- Mythology, Chinese > Fiction
- Spirits > Fiction
- Young men > Fiction
- Revenge > Fiction
- Meurtre > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Personnes disparues > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Renards > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Mythologie chinoise > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Esprits > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Jeunes hommes > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Vengeance > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Manchuria (China) > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Novels
- Mythological fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Note
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2023017093
- OCLC
- YBP 2023017093
- Author
Choo, Yangsze, author. Author
- Title
The fox wife : a novel / Yangsze Choo.
- Publisher
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024.
- Copyright Date
©2024
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
text
cartographic image
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Women
Chinese Americans
Writers
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.