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The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo is a coming of age story, an adventure tale with a sprinkle of magic realism, and a historical novel set in 1930s colonial Malaya (today’s Malaysia).
The story begins with a deathbed promise to find and reunite a severed finger with its owner. The rest of the plot brings together mysterious woman-eating tigers, masters and servants, womanizing doctors, dance hall girls, an abusive stepfather and a mother with gambling debts, vivid dreams about the dead at a train s ...more
The story begins with a deathbed promise to find and reunite a severed finger with its owner. The rest of the plot brings together mysterious woman-eating tigers, masters and servants, womanizing doctors, dance hall girls, an abusive stepfather and a mother with gambling debts, vivid dreams about the dead at a train s ...more
This was the worst book I ever read, I hope to never lay eyes on it again!
Did not finish. I had trouble following the audiobook, and the repetition all the time to be annoying.
Feb 22, 2019
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The disturbing love story between step siblings overpowered everything else in this book. I wanted to know so much more about Malaysia in the 1930s and the local meretiger lore.
The disturbing love story between step siblings overpowered everything else in this book. I wanted to know so much more about Malaysia in the 1930s and the local meretiger lore.
Mar 31, 2022
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