The Secret Talker - A Novel

Combining the dark twists of The Silent Patient with the unsettling beauty of The Vegetarian , a tense, gripping, and wholly original psychological tale of a woman with a secret admirer--who is hiding secrets of her own. Beautiful, diligent, and passive, Hongmei is the perfect wife to Glen, an intelligent and caring college professor. But her quiet life in Northern California fractures when a mysterious person begins e-mailing her, pulling her into an enthralling and frightening game of cat-and-mouse. Who is stalking her? And how does this mysterious stranger know her deepest, darkest secrets? As Hongmei is forced to confront her own dark past in China, the facade of her idyllic life is laid bare. Increasingly desperate and self-destructive, her one hope is to turn the tables on her tormentor. Investigating the stalker's own secret history may irrevocably tear her marriage and her world apart--a risk she must take to regain control of her life.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Yan Geling is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists and screenwriters writing in the Chinese language today. Born in Shanghai, she served with the People's Liberation Army (PLA), starting at age twelve as a dancer in an entertainment troupe. She is the author of numerous novels, short stories, novellas, essays, and scripts. Yan is fluent in English and her best-known novels in the West are The Banquet Bug (published in the UK as The Uninvited) and The Lost Daughter of Happiness (translated by Cathy Silber), as well as the novella and short story collection White Snake and Other Stories (translated by Lawrence A. Walker). She lives in Berlin, Germany. 
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright, and International Booker Prize–longlisted literary translator. Tiang has translated over thirty books from across the Chinese-speaking world, including novels by Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Lo Yi-Chin, Liu Xinwu, and Zhang Yueran.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Geling Yan, Yan Geling
• Mitarbeit: Jeremy Tiang (Übersetzung), Tiang Jeremy (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780063004030
• ISBN: 978-0-06-300403-0
• Seiten: 160
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Historical crime and mysteries, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Thrillers / Supernatural, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Thrillers / Technological, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: CHINA: LITERATURE, LITERATURE: ASIAN & ASIAN-AMERICAN, LITERATURE: LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, Asian & Asian American / China: Literature, Literature / Women's Literature, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction, Literature / Literature in Translation, Literature / Asian & Asian-American