There are ghosts on the Black Isle.
Ghosts that no one can see.
No one...except Cassandra.
Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin
brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle''s bustling,
immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber
plantations a sharp contrast to the city of her childhood. And she
soon makes another discovery: the Black Isle is swarming with
ghosts.
Haunted and lonely, Cassandra at first tries to ignore her
ability to see the restless apparitions that drift down the street
and crouch in cold corners at school. Yet despite her struggles
with these spirits, Cassandra comes to love her troubled new home.
And soon, she attracts the notice of a dangerously charismatic
man.
Even as she becomes a fearless young woman, the Isle''s dark
forces won''t let her go. War is looming, and Cassandra wonders if
her unique gift might be her beloved island''s only chance for
salvation . . .
Taking readers from the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation
during WWII, to the Isle''s radical transformation into a gleaming
cosmopolitan city, THE BLACK ISLE is a sweeping epic--a deeply
imagined, fiercely original tale from a vibrant new voice in
fiction.
關於作者：
Sandi Tan was born in Singapore. Upon graduating from the
University of Kent in England, she became the film critic at
Singapore''s Straits Times, the largest English-language
daily paper in Asia. She later left that job to pursue an MFA in
film at Columbia University. Her short films have screened at New
York''s Museum of Modern Art and at 100 festivals around the world,
as well as broadcast across Europe and Australia. Her original
screenplays include "Voodoo Kiss," a zombie romance co-written with
her husband, which was optioned by producer Edward R. Pressman
American Psycho. She lives in Pasadena, California, with
her husband, the writer John Powers, and is at work on her second
novel.
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