Ren doesn’t know what is going to happen next, and neither does the reader. Ren’s porous sense of reality (and Choo’s smart use of the present tense) gives his passages a propulsive vitality that grips the reader’s attention. Choo’s skill in creating a dynamic, vibrant, non-Western cosmos rivals that of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Half of a Yellow Sun. To her credit, Choo manages to ots and subplots with themes of superstition, Confucianism, and the desire for personal fulfillment versus the tug of familial loyalty. Instead, what author Yangsze Choo has given readers is a darn good yarn. Woven through with Chinese folklore and a tantalizing mystery, this novel is a page-turner of the highest order.The Night Tiger is a galloping good read that’s blessedly free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness. In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin’s paths will cross in ways they will never forget.Ĭaptivating and lushly written, The Night Tiger explores the rich world of servants and masters, ancient superstition and modern ambition, sibling rivalry and unexpected love. One night, Ji Lin’s dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail.Īs time runs out for Ren’s mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother’s debts. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master’s soul will roam the earth forever. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master’s severed finger and reunite it with his body. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us… ‘You won’t be able to put this one down!’ Reese Witherspoon
it’s an amazing book’ Rhys Stephenson on BBC’s Between the Covers ‘It reminds me of Where the Crawdads Sing.
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