![]() There is much more at work here, including the tender sorrow of Ren’s childhood and the violence that has long threatened Ji Lin." Writing in The Harvard Crimson, Kelsey Chen said that, in The Night Tiger, "The world of colonial Malaysia is a pulsing, dynamic land. ![]() The Washington Independent Review of Books' Patricia Schultheis called The Night Tiger "a galloping good read that’s blessedly free of political polemics and post-colonial self-righteousness." In Locus magazine, 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. ![]() Meanwhile, unexplained deaths take place across the area, and there are rumours of the harimau jadian, a tiger that can transform into a human. Houseboy Ren is trying to fulfil his former master’s dying wish: to find his lost finger within 49 days. ![]() One of her dance partners leaves her with a human finger. In 1931, in British Malaya, Ji Lin works as an apprentice dressmaker and dancehall girl. 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. ![]() Class=notpageimage| Settings of The Night Tiger within Malaya ![]()
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