Woven through with Chinese folklore and a tantalizing mystery, this novel is a page-turner of the highest order. 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. Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her. 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 Near the end of THE NIGHT TIGER, one of the main characters sits down to read an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery. ‘It reminds me of Where the Crawdads Sing.
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