One night, Ji Lin's dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir: a severed finger. Secretly, though, Ji Lin also moonlights as a dancehall girl to help pay off her beloved mother's Mahjong debts. Ji Lin always wanted to be a doctor, but as a girl in 1930s Malaysia, apprentice dressmaker is a more suitable occupation. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth, unable to rest in peace. When 11-year-old Ren's master dies, he makes one last request of his Chinese houseboy: that Ren find his severed finger, lost years ago in an accident, and reunite it with his body. Woven through with Chinese folklore and a tantalizing mystery, this novel is a page-turner of the highest order.A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. 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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