Ghost Wife
Lei EnnaQinghai People's Publishing House2003
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Ghost Wife is a full-length romance novel by Taiwanese romance author Lei Enna, first published in February 2002 by Taiwan's Homer Culture and introduced to mainland China in January 2003 by Qinghai People's Publishing House under its "Flower Season Novels" series. The heroine is a woman who died young and lingers by the riverbank; worldly and full of feeling, she has grown used to the boundless desolation of a hundred years of solitude. By a stroke of chance she falls in love with a man of blank expression and cold demeanor, and is determined to place herself in his calm life, even at the cost of revealing her true identity and willingly becoming his "ghost wife." Yet her initiative meets a painful answer: he is an envoy of the underworld, the Literary Judge who keeps the Register of Life and Death, and having attained immortal fruition, he cannot be entangled in mortal love between man and woman. The gulf between them is like that between cloud and mud, and they seem fated to be connected yet never united. She asks only to confirm that he is not indifferent, and with that she is content, finally letting reincarnation close the curtain on a love that crosses the boundary of life and death and can never be resolved. The whole work takes the separation of the human and ghost realms as its premise, unfolding a deep affection that persists despite knowing it cannot be, in a delicate, gentle style bearing the lyricism and melancholy peculiar to early Taiwanese romance.Editor's review
一段明知无果的深情，是这本书最动人的地方。雷恩娜把女主角写成主动的一方：她不是等待被爱怜的幽魂，而是清楚知道自己想要什么，甚至敢于坦白身份、亲手为自己争取一场婚姻。这种“明知不可为而为之”的姿态，让原本偏向苦情的冥婚设定多了一层倔强与明亮的底色。男主角身为掌管生死簿的文判官，因仙家身份而无法回应凡俗之情，克制与隐忍恰好与女主的炽热形成张力，两人之间“云泥之差”的距离感，正是全书情绪的主要来源。作为2000年代初台湾言情“花季小说”系列的一员，本作篇幅短小、节奏紧凑，语言带着那个年代特有的绵密与感伤，适合作为一次短程的阅读消遣。青海人民出版社2003年的引进版本，也让大陆读者得以在纸书上读到这部作品。Who it's for
A good fit for
- 喜欢早期台湾言情小说、偏爱婉约抒情笔调的读者
- 对冥婚、人鬼恋题材有偏好，但不追求恐怖惊悚的读者
- 想在短篇幅内读完一个完整爱情故事的休闲阅读者
- 对2000年代华语言情出版物有兴趣的收藏与怀旧读者
Not a good fit for
- 期待强悬疑、重恐怖氛围的灵异小说读者
- 偏好现代都市背景或快节奏强情节的读者
- 不接受“人鬼殊途、以转世作结”式结局的读者
Reading tips
- 先把它当作一部短篇言情来读，不必以灵异恐怖的期待进入，重点感受人物情感。
- 留意女主角的主动与坦白，这是全书区别于一般苦情鬼故事的关键。
- 读到结尾时不妨回头体会“投胎转世”这一收束方式带来的怅然感。
- 若喜欢本书笔调，可顺带了解禾马文化同时期“花季小说”系列的其他作品。
About the publisher
Qinghai People's Publishing House China · Founded in 1954Qinghai People's Publishing House is a comprehensive local publisher based in Xining, with publishing areas covering local histories and gazetteers, ethnic history and culture, literature and art, and textbooks and supplementary teaching materials. Judging from the 124 titles in the database, the press has a presence in foreign literature, social culture, history, literature, medicine, and biography. Representative books include Chinese translations of Tagore's poetry collections Gitanjali, Stray Birds, and The Crescent Moon, as well as works on history, culture, and medicine such as The History of Changes in the Yellow River, An Intellectual History of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Pillar Testament: The Legacy of Songtsen Gampo, and Essentials of the Kalachakra Calendar. Its authors include Rabindranath Tagore, Wei Huan, Cen Zhongmian, Li Jingwei, Zhang Zhibin, Huang Mingxin, Chen Jiujin, and Shangzhuot Sangre, reflecting a publishing profile that combines the translation of foreign literature with the compilation of local historical and cultural works and traditional medical texts.
FAQ
《鬼妻》的作者和出版社是哪个？
据百度百科词条，本书作者为台湾言情作家雷恩娜，2002年2月由禾马文化在台湾初版，2003年1月由青海人民出版社以“花季小说”丛书引进出版。这本书讲的是恐怖故事吗？
不是。它属于言情小说，以人鬼之间的情感纠葛为主线，虽有冥婚、判官、生死簿等灵异设定，但重心在人物情感而非恐怖氛围。市面上有多种叫《鬼妻》的小说，怎么区分？
同名作品不少，如曲神的灵异长篇、绿光的《欺世夫妻之二·鬼妻》等。本书特指雷恩娜所著、青海人民出版社2003年出版的花季小说版本。这本书的ISBN是多少？
公开资料中未能核到青海人民出版社2003年版《鬼妻》的ISBN，台湾禾马文化版则记为9789574718641，两者并不通用。This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Lei Enna AuthorLei Enna is an author about whom limited public information is available; neither her nationality nor her dates of birth and death are currently known. According to the library's holdings, only one work by her, Ghost Wife, has been collected, and it is commonly categorized as a premium novel and a social novel. From the title and category alone, it may be inferred that her writing touches on a narrative with folkloric elements or emotional entanglement, and that through the framework of social fiction she attends to the fates of characters in real-world circumstances. However, the specific plot and character setups cannot be confirmed due to insufficient material. Lacking biographical details, interviews on her writing, or critical commentary, it is difficult at present to trace her creative trajectory and stylistic evolution, or to determine the place of Ghost Wife in her writing career. Readers seeking to understand this author can only begin with the limited text of Ghost Wife, and further information awaits additional public material.