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Bibliographic Information
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The fox wife : a novel
First edition.
- Author
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Choo, Yangsze,
- Publisher:
- Henry Holt and Company,
- Pub date:
- 2024.
- Pages:
- 388 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9781250266019
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult new fiction shelf.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Holdings
MYS CHO
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Adult Fiction in Hardcover
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Adult new fiction shelf
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The fox wife : a novel
First edition.
Choo, Yangsze,
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The fox wife : a novel
First edition.
Choo, Yangsze,
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Personal Author:
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Choo, Yangsze,
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Title:
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The fox wife : a novel / Yangsze Choo.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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388 pages : color map ; 25 cm
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General Note:
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Color map on endpapers.
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Summary:
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"Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, 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. Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can't escape the curse that afflicts them--their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family's luck seems to change--or does it? Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she's a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject term:
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Murder--Fiction.
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Missing persons--Fiction.
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Foxes--Fiction.
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Mythology, Chinese--Fiction.
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Spirits--Fiction.
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Young men--Fiction.
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Revenge--Fiction.
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Meurtre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Personnes disparues--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Renards--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Mythologie chinoise--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Esprits--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Jeunes hommes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Vengeance--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Geographic term:
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Manchuria (China)--Fiction.