num_pages: 371
description: Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soulmate your old friend and I have come back to this city of sixteen million in search of you.So begins the first letter that falls into Wangs lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi. The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wangs previous livesfrom escaping a marriage to a spirit bride to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolutionbound to his mysterious soulmate spanning one thousand years of betrayal and intrigue.As the letters continue to appear seemingly out of thin air Wang becomes convinced that someone is watching himsomeone who claims to have known him for over one thousand years. And with each letter Wang feels the watcher growing closer and closerSeamlessly weaving Chinese folklore history and literary classics The Incarnations is a taut and gripping novel that sheds light on the cyclical nature of history as it hints that the past is never truly settled.
language: English
title: The Incarnations
publisher: Touchstone