The Bride Factory

* The phenomenal Indian bestseller * Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award *'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate SaintsIn the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists.These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on a faultline, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic bite out of their happiness.With the family riven by heartbreak, their maid takes the chance to resolve her own past mistakes. Having abandoned her son many years before, she now traces him to Myanmar, only to find him in prison - the

不甘命運被支配的女子闖入幽冥，拯救她被侵犯的靈魂《彼岸之嫁》女主角黃姵嘉、黑咖啡聊美劇站長Castle推薦一天傍晚，父親問我願不願意當鬼新娘…… 十九世紀，英國的殖民地馬六甲，有許多華人移民家族世居在此。他們接受西方文化洗禮的同時，也遵循其華人祖先的習俗過生活。潘麗蘭是經商致富的華人移民後代，但多年前爆發天花疫情，使她摯愛的母親病逝；而潘父則因病毀容，從此深居簡出，荒廢家業。一天，潘父告

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