FOLOWING THE WRONG GOD HOME

Yin Ling - enigmatic, beautiful, and engaged to the wealthy, politically ambitious Vincent Chee - falls clandestinely in love with Ben Gallagher, an outspoken American professor. Ben is equally mesmerised by Yin Ling and the depth of her inner life, which finds expression in secret poems and an unwavering devotion to an old, eccentric family servant, whose obsession it is to return a mysterious statue of her god to his  rightful home before she dies.