num_pages: 439
description: An absorbing novel of romance and revolution loyalty and family sacrifice and undying loveWe have three souls or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this ... So begins the haunting and captivating tale set in 1935 China of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin who watches her own funeral from above and wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. Beside her are three soulsstern and scholarly yang; impulsive romantic yin; and wise shining hunwho will guide her toward understanding. She must they tell her make amends.As Leiyin delves back in time with the three souls to review her life she sees the spoiled and privileged teenager she once was a girl who is concerned with her own desires while China is fractured by civil war and social upheaval. At a party she meets Hanchin a captivating left-wing poet and translator and instantly falls in love with him.When Leiyin defies her father to pursue Hanchin she learns the harsh truththat she is powerless over her fate. Her punishment for disobedience leads to exile an unwanted marriage a pregnancy and ultimately her death. And when she discovers what she must do to be released from limbo into the afterlife Leiyin realizes that the time for making amends is shorter than she thought.Suffused with history and literature Three Souls is an epic tale of revenge and betrayal forbidden love and the price we are willing to pay for freedom.
language: English
title: Three Souls
publisher: HarperCollins Canada