
The Fox Wife
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all, she’s a mother seeking vengeance. Hunting a murderer, the trail will take her from northern China to Japan, with Bao following doggedly behind.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A mesmerizing story moving from reality to myth and back, fantasy and history mix up and the reader is taken into a world where he/she’s left wandering what is human, what is animal, what is spirit.