<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[keyword results for a:(Ratner) t:(Music of the Ghosts) ]]></title><description><![CDATA[keyword results for a:(Ratner) t:(Music of the Ghosts) ]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/toledo/rss/search?query=a%3A%28Ratner%29%20t%3A%28Music%20of%20the%20Ghosts%29%20&amp;searchType=smart&amp;suite=cobalt&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:43:08 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Music of the Ghosts]]></title><description><![CDATA[This novel of extraordinary humanity from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held as a young woman begins an odyssey to discover the truth about her missing father.

Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago.

In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country. She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart, confronts her long-buried memories, and prepares to learn her father's fate.

Meanwhile, the Old Musician, who earns his modest keep playing ceremonial music at a temple, awaits Teera's visit. He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge's illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father's end.

A love story for things lost and restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts is a sensitive portrait of the inheritance of survival and a journey through the embattled geography of the heart where love can be reborn.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12469933</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12469933</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ratner, Vaddey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12469933981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508228172/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music of the Ghosts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Returning to the Cambodian homeland she fled as a child refugee decades earlier, Teera finds herself in a country of survivors and perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge holocaust before bonding with a mysterious musician who claims to have known her late father.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C2191226</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C2191226</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ratner, Vaddey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2191226218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476795782/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>