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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Quality fiction can entertain us or challenge us, the characters can take us on an emotional journey we may not otherwise experience or the story’s setting or subject matter will cause us to give greater consideration to our own opinions and actions… but rare is it that a ‘thriller’ will achieve all of these things. Ghost Girls is a novel with impact — an important story told in a powerful way. Read full review >> Sophie, half Irish and half Chinese, daughter of an erstwhile Australian PI and a missing Chinese mother teaches English as a second language in Sidney. When she looks for one of her favorite students signed up for a new semester, she sees the student’s name but not the face. Then a student jumps to her death; again name and face don’t match. This leads her on a dangerous journey through the underbelly of sex crimes and organized prostitution. Young Chinese girls are recruited from China to study English for university classes but end up as slaves to the underworld. As Sophie pieces together her clues we journey through the savory smells of Chinese cooking and the not so savory odor of death. This is a remarkably close-knit piece of fiction, keeping your interest to the very end with plenty of action and mystery. I received an electronic copy in return for an honest review. Adult book about the sex industry that exploits students who come to Australia to study from Asia. Sophie is the half -Chinese daughter of a detective and now teacher at an English language school in Sydney. When one of her students kills herself, Sophie is determined to find out why. Her inquiries lead her into the seedy world of S & M prostitution, drugs and underworld crime. Gripping tale in that you can never be quite sure who Sophie's enemies actually are - who can she trust? Steeped in the smells and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, weighted by the sinister atmosphere of a private world of terrible crimes,Ghost Girls is a remarkable debut novel.
The combination of plot, character and setting in Ghost Girls is perfectly balanced, and the delivery is pitched elegantly to provide insight into the depths of the depravity of the crimes, without making even the most sensitive reader turn away: Newtown Review of Books nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Winter in Sydney. The city is brimming with foreign students. Sophie Sandilands takes a job teaching at an English language school. When one of her students leaps to her death it becomes clear that lurking within the psyche of this community is a deep sense of despair and alienation. When it is revealed that the dead woman on the pavement has stolen another's identity, Sophie is drawn into the mystery. Unable to resist the investigative instincts that run in her blood, Sophie finds herself unravelling a sinister operation that is trawling the foreign student market for its victims. But as Sophie works on tracking down the criminals it becomes evident that someone has knowledge of her and the disappearances in her own past. Will Sophie solve the mystery before she too becomes a ghost? Ghost Girls richly evokes the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of Sydney's Chinatown, and imagines dark exploitative demands behind closed suburban doors. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The story is set in Sydney's Chinatown and Cath writes with the authority of someone who's been there, and in China. She deals with sexual exploitation of young women with an unsensational ethic. I'll look for more by Cath Ferla. ( )