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Wikipedia article




'The Night Tiger: A Novel' is a 2019 novel by Malaysian author Yangsze Choo, written in English.

Choo took almost four years to write the book, including visiting the setting of the novel to ensure historical accuracy.

Plot



In 1931, in British Malaya, Ji Lin works as an apprentice dressmaker and dancehall girl. One of her dance partners leaves her with a human finger.

Houseboy Ren is trying to fulfil his former masters dying wish: to find his lost finger within 49 days.

Meanwhile, unexplained deaths take place across the area, and there are rumours of the 'harimau jadian', a tiger that can transform into a human.

Reception



The 'Washington Independent Review of Books'' Patricia Schultheis called it "a galloping good read thats blessedly free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness." In 'Locus', it was called "an immersive ride into the past [] a slow burn of a novel that hints early and often at regional myths and legends. There is much more at work here, including the tender sorrow of Rens childhood and the violence that has long threatened Ji Lin." In 'The Harvard Crimson', Kelsey Chen said that, in 'The Night Tiger', "The world of colonial Malaysia is a pulsing, dynamic land. [] filled with exponentially heightened colors, dreams, and emotions in a quivering, hallucinatory mystery where local and diasporic mythologies come to life. [] a world hopelessly entangled in threads of fate and death, ordered along rules of ritual and folklore."

The audiobook, narrated by Choo herself, was nominated for the 2020 Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics.

In 2022, 'The Night Tiger' was included on the Big Jubilee Read, a list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors produced to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

References



Category:2019 novels

Category:Magic realism novels

Category:Malaysian novels

Category:Novels set in Malaysia

Category:Fiction set in 1931

Category:British Malaya

Category:Fictional werecats

Category:Perak

Category:Flatiron Books books

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