The Witch's Market, by Mingmei Yip
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From the author of Secret of a Thousand Beauties and Peach Blossom Pavilion comes a beautifully written novel of self-discovery and intrigue. Chinese-American assistant professor Eileen Chen specializes in folk religion at her San Francisco college. Though her grandmother made her living as a shamaness, Eileen publicly dismisses witchcraft as mere superstition. Yet privately, the subject intrigues her. When a research project takes her to the Canary Islands—long rumored to be home to real witches—Eileen is struck by the lush beauty of Tenerife and its blend of Spanish and Moroccan culture. A stranger invites her to a local market where women sell amulets, charms, and love spells. Gradually Eileen immerses herself in her exotic surroundings, finding romance with a handsome young furniture maker. But as she learns more about the lives of these self-proclaimed witches, Eileen must choose how much trust to place in this new and seductive world, where love, greed, and vengeance can be as powerful, or as destructive, as any magic.
The Witch's Market, by Mingmei Yip- Amazon Sales Rank: #965940 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Released on: 2015-11-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .90" w x 5.50" l, .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF MINGMEI YIP “Inspiring, courageous story...Yip's prose is simple yet descriptive, immersing the reader in the sights, sounds and smells of rural and urban China.” —Booklist on Secret of a Thousand Beauties “A unique and enthralling style…flawless.” –Baltimore Books Examiner on The Nine Fold Heaven “Surprising and often funny….Part epic, part coming-of-age story, part modern fairy tale.” --Publishers Weekly on Song of the Silk Road
About the Author MINGMEI YIP was born in China and received her Ph.D. from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. She has written for major Hong Kong newspapers, and has appeared on many national and international television and radio programs. She immigrated to the United States in 1992, where she now lives in New York City with her husband. Her novels have been published in ten different languages and she is also an accomplished musician and calligrapher. Visit her at www.mingmeiyip.com.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A charming tale… By Amazon Customer I delighted in the author’s blending of Chinese wisdom and folk lore in her book “The Witch’s Market”. During her trip to the Canary Islands to research her professorial thesis, the reader follows Eileen Chen as she navigates a personal search for her own identity. As the story unfolds, Eileen is unaware of the adventures awaiting her as she sets out to find and record the activities of local witches. Readers wishing they could learn the secrets of communicating with the inhabitants of this world and that of the deceased, will be charmed by one woman’s search for her own destiny amid daily dramas of the local inhabitants.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This she delivers through her prose like narrative that’s spot on for depicting her exotic locales ... By Debbie Haupt-The Reading Frenzy Mingmei Yip’s inventive page-turner captivated me from page one. Using her unique storytelling voice she mixes Chinese myths, legends and beliefs with an evocative present day literary tale that includes a cryptic mystery. This she delivers through her prose like narrative that’s spot on for depicting her exotic locales and her imaginative, off the wall characters including her enigmatic, fanciful and realistic heroine, Eileen. Her innovative blending of cultures, the lessons in Chinese witchcraft and the dreamlike, Alice down the rabbit hole feel makes this adult fairytale the perfect choice for any fan of Magical-Realism.On her 33rd birthday Eileen Chen decided to become a witch. She hailed from a long line of witches as her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother practiced the art. She knew the basics of witchcraft taught to her by those women but instead of practicing Eileen decided to become a scholar of Shamanism, got her Ph.D. and took an assistant professorship at San Francisco State University. Her boss had been urging her to publish a book on Shamanism and western witches, which just might get her a tenured position. So deciding to combine both goals the choice of where to go to find out all about witchcraft conveniently came to her in a dream, which led her to the mystical and mysterious Canary Islands.With the blessings of her boss and her younger sister, plus a begrudged blessing from her sometimes boyfriend Eileen took off for an epic, hopefully life changing adventure.What happens when she gets there is the stuff of fairytales.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. this was a really nice read, albeit a little bit slow By Nimily This book centers around a Chinese American folk religion teacher named Eileen Chen. Eileen's grandmother was a Chinese Shaman, and made her living by helping clients in magical and mysterious ways. Eileen, on the other hand, decided to follow a different path and study witchcraft and shamanism from an academic level only. I wouldn't say that she is necessarily a non-believer, but she is more or less an ordinary woman.In the beginning of the book, Eileen is encouraged by her boss to take a year long sabbatical in order to delve deeper into the world of witchcraft and hopefully gain tenure by writing a book about it. At first, she is not sure where to go, but a dream ends up leading her to the Canary Islands, where the story truly begins.There are some aspects of this book that seemed a little bit convenient and hard to believe. For example, Eileen meets many people while on the Islands, and they continuously treat her as if she is someone they have always known. First the witches in the marketplace, who somehow know that Eileen is "also a witch", then a man with his own hotel who finds her and invites her to stay indefinitely, next a friend of his who is lonely, dying, and has more money than she knows what to do with, and finally a young man and his grandpa who immediately take her in and invite her to live with them. The idea of people just throwing money or their hearts at her constantly feels a little bit far-fetched. Perhaps it would be more believable if more exploration had gone into building a relationship with these people beforehand, but there was very little of that. Most of the relationships come later, long after these new characters have accepted Eileen into their lives. This could be a flaw in the writing, or it could be something more... perhaps a result of the subtle and hidden powers that Eileen seems to possess? I really don't know for sure but nagged at me a little bit.That aside, this was a really nice read, albeit a little bit slow. I would classify this book as a coming of age mixed with a tiny bit of mystery. If you go into it expecting there to be more fantasy and supernatural elements, you will be disappointed. If you go into it expecting it to be a simple story about a woman who is searching to find herself, you will probably like it a lot. The magic is there, but it is extremely subtle and rarely mentioned. It seems to mainly exist to draw Eileen closer to discovering what happened to a young lady who drowned in a lake a long time ago; a girl who has a psychic bond with Eileen and appears to her in visions from the very beginning of the book.There are a couple of parts of the book that really made it shine. First, the sculptures that are made by Luis' grandfather when Eileen comes upon him (led by a horse who she randomly decided to hop on and who ended up stranding her next to him in the middle of nowhere -- again, slightly convenient and weird, but sort of neat). The sculptures are described with so much detail and are so beautiful, that I could actually see them in my mind. This was a result of truly beautiful writing and I really enjoyed this tiny little detail in the book.The next thing that I really loved was the flashbacks Eileen has from time to time about her late grandmother. She talks about her grandmother's "office" where she would meet clients, and how she would go about treating them and diagnosing certain bad spirits. These stories were incredibly interesting and I would have loved it if there had been more of them in the book, or maybe if Eileen would have found more of a way to tap into her grandmother's power and actively use her gift, rather than just being on the receiving end of a couple of visions here and there. There is so much potential with the main character's background, and I do feel like a little of it was wasted by minimizing the fantasy elements of this story. I feel like it would have been a hundred times more powerful if there had been significantly more witchcraft in the story and very little of the actual narrative would have been lost by going that route, as it is a very tame story and could have really used a bit more spark. All in all, it was a good book, but probably not one I will read again. I would certainly be open to reading a sequel to find out how things turn out for all of the characters in the book though, since the ending had so many possibilities. I also think this author has a beautiful gift of writing and has so much potential... I hope that she can live up to it in her future books.
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