Ghost Song
core novel 1992 Ghost World
Record
| First published | 1992 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.33 (36 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780374325442 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Do you remember, asks the narrator-cat, winding its golden chain around the tree, how the jealous shaman Kuzma killed the witch Chingis? That was another tale. Here an Arctic fur trapper for the Czar, Malyuta, is visited by Kuzma, a shaman of the Ghost World, who claims his newborn son Ambrosi as his apprentice. Though Kuzma woos him in dreams and his extraordinary storytelling gift marks him as a born shaman, Ambrosi refuses to answer the call; then Kuzma curses a tribe of the reindeer people, transforming them into wolves who kill Malyuta, luring Ambrosi into the Ghost World to release his father's spirit and break the spell. A starkly mythic tale, the second Ghost World book.
Where it sits
- Universe: Ghost World
- Series: Ghost World core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Susan Price
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the first American edition (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992); first published by Faber in 1992.
- From the series record (Ghost World): Susan Price's fairy tales of a frozen Czardom of witches and shamans.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Ghost World: position 2 of 4: previous The Ghost Drum (1987) · next Ghost Dance (1994)
- Internal chronology, within Ghost World: position 2 of 3: previous The Ghost Drum (1987) · next Ghost Dance (1994)
Sources
- Risingshadow (series listing)
- Wikipedia (Susan Price)
- Kirkus Reviews (with edition details)
- Koç School library catalogue (first American edition)
- The Locus Index to Science Fiction
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