[BRAND NEW] The Night Tiger: A Novel by Yangsze Choo (2020, Trade Paperback)

Description: Book is in brand new condition! No bent pages, markings inside, or any other water/physical damage to the book. Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBig Jubilee Read booklist for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 70 books across the Commonwealth for 70 years of her reign, by the BBC and The Reading Agency."A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." --Kirkus (starred review)From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, an utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin LeeQuick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin plunges into a dark adventure: a mirror world of secrets and superstitions.Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish: that Ren find the man's finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever.As the days tick relentlessly by, a series of unexplained deaths racks the district, along with whispers of men who turn into tigers. Ji Lin and Ren's increasingly dangerous paths crisscross through lush plantations, hospital storage rooms, and ghostly dreamscapes.Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love. But anchoring this dazzling, propulsive novel is the intimate coming-of-age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible.

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Book Title: Night Tiger : a Novel

Number of Pages: 384 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry

Topic: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Historical, Fantasy / Historical

Item Height: 1 in

Publication Year: 2020

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 11.6 Oz

Author: Yangsze Choo

Item Length: 8.3 in

Item Width: 5.8 in

Format: Trade Paperback