Yangsze Choo. (2019). The Night Tiger: A Novel. Flatiron Books.

Yangsze Choo. 2019. The Night Tiger: A Novel. Flatiron Books.

Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger: A Novel. Flatiron Books, 2019.

Yangsze Choo. The Night Tiger: A Novel. Flatiron Books, 2019.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250175441
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B07FSHDT88
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250175441
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781250175458

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Yangsze Choo

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Night Tiger

dateAdded

2019-02-09T01:07:10.397Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=4197577
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Night Tiger A Novel

crossRefId

4197577

subtitle

A Novel

id

ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB

starRating

4

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: TheNightTiger_9781250175441_4197577
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 10364743
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250175441
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 2/12/2019
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ada0f9c4-514a-4eb0-a197-fbc02173cbeb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: TheNightTiger_4197577
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B07FSHDT88
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 2/12/2019
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ada0f9c4-514a-4eb0-a197-fbc02173cbeb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: TheNightTiger_9781250175441_4197577
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781250175441
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 2/12/2019
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ada0f9c4-514a-4eb0-a197-fbc02173cbeb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: witchcraft
2. • value: superstition
3. • value: family
4. • value: Asia
5. • value: Myth
6. • value: Mythology
7. • value: Historical
8. • value: mother
9. • value: ghost
10. • value: Folklore
11. • value: folk tales
12. • value: Paranormal
13. • value: identical twins
14. • value: Ghost Stories
15. • value: britain
16. • value: daughter
17. • value: supernatural
18. • value: inspirational fiction
19. • value: women
20. • value: Strong Female Characters
21. • value: Historical Fiction
22. • value: England
23. • value: magical realism
24. • value: Siblings
25. • value: Europe
26. • value: Magic
27. • value: Dark Fantasy
28. • value: Fable
29. • value: sea stories
30. • value: Mothers and daughters
31. • value: fantasy
32. • value: Malaysia
33. • value: historical novels
34. • value: female characters
35. • value: asian american literature
36. • value: fantasy books
37. • value: chinese folklore
38. • value: diverse voices
39. • value: historical fiction books
40. • value: Hello Sunshine
41. • value: asian writers
42. • value: fairy fantasy
43. • value: fairy tale books
44. • value: reese witherspoon book club
45. • value: chinese-american authors
46. • value: literary fantasy fiction
47. • value: amazon best books of the year
48. • value: best books of 2019
49. • value: english historical novels

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Choo, Yangsze
   • bioText:

     Yangsze Choo is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghost Bride (now a Netflix Original series) and The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club Pick, and a Big Jubilee Read selection for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. She lives in California with her family and loves to eat and read (often at the same time). The Fox Wife and all previous novels would not have been possible without large quantities of dark chocolate.
     Yangsze is happy to visit book clubs via Zoom! You can find her on her website, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

   • name: Yangsze Choo

publishDate

2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Night Tiger

fullDescription

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." —Kirkus (starred review)
An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee
Quick-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 may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.
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.
"A work of incredible beauty... Astoundingly captivating and striking... A transcendent story of courage and connection." —Booklist (starred review)

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: USA Today
   • content: "A mesmerizing tale of murder, romance, and superstition....So vividly told, you can practically smell the oleander blossoms outside Acton's house. This Night Tiger is worth a prowl."
2. • premium: False
   • source: Glamour
   • content: "A book for fans of Isabel Allende and for those who love a murder mystery with a beautiful backdrop."
3. • premium: False
   • source: Washington Independent Review of Books
   • content: "So engrossing you could spend a day reading this lush historical novel without staring at your phone once... A sweeping novel with something for everyone -- and incredible writing." --Refinery29
     
     "A bravura performance."
4. • premium: False
   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
   • content: "Mythical creatures, conversations with the dead, lucky numbers, Confucian virtues, and forbidden love provide the backdrop to Choo's superb murder mystery. Mining the rich setting of colonial Malaysia, Choo wonderfully combines a Holmes-esque plot with Chinese lore."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "[Choo] presents complex characters and multilayered stories in a vivid setting that coalesce into a richly evocative and mesmerizing tale in which myths and folklore intertwine in daily life. For fans of Kate Mosse or Isabel Allende."
6. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from March 1, 2019
     

     In 1930s colonial Malaya, Ji Lin wants to attend university but instead apprentices to a dressmaker and secretly moonlights in a dance hall to help pay off her mother's gambling debts. When a dance partner drops a preserved finger and then turns up dead, complications Ji Lin never could have imagined arise. After Dr. MacFarlane dies, his young houseboy, Ren, is sent to work for a different British doctor, but Ren has his own agenda-find MacFarlane's long-missing finger and bury it in his grave before the end of the traditional 49-day mourning period. The book alternates between Ji Lin's and Ren's perspectives, and their story lines become tangled in unexpected ways long before the characters meet. A string of bodies spells misfortune as a possibly supernatural tiger stalks the characters, and dreams contain messages from the beyond. The final, stunning reveal only succeeds owing to masterly plotting. Steeped in Malayan and Chinese folklore, Choo's opulent writing and world-building deftly work in context and explanation, and the back matter contains further information. VERDICT Weaving family obligations and colonialism with were-tigers and ghosts, this novel is compelling and mesmerizing. That rare literary work that will appeal widely.-Jennifer Rothschild, Arlington County Public Libraries, VA

     Copyright 2019 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

7. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from January 1, 2019
     A weretiger is neither fully beast nor entirely human. Instead, according to Asian folklore, it wears the skin of a man but remains an animal inside, capable of appearing in either form. In The Night Tiger, a work of incredible beauty from the author of The Ghost Bride (2013), a series of unusual tiger killings in the area of the Batu Gajah district hospital have residents concerned. It is the 1930s and Malaysia, as it is known today, is under British rule. An eccentric old doctor has just died, leaving his 11-year-old Chinese servant, Ren, with a grotesque mission: recover the finger that was severed from the doctor's hand during an expedition, and bury it with him before 49 days have passed, or his soul will never be able to rest. While Ren finds a new job with surgeon William Acton, a friend of the old doctor's, the finger makes a surprise appearance at a nearby dance hall, where it is discovered by Ji Lin, a young woman working to pay off her mother's mahjong debts. That chance discovery is only the beginning of a seemingly supernatural link between Ren, Ji Lin, and three other people with names derived from the five Confucian virtues. Astoundingly captivating and striking in its portrayal of love, betrayal, and death, The Night Tiger is a transcendent story of courage and connection.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

8. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     February 1, 2019
     

     In 1930s colonial Malaysia, Ji Lin labors by day as an apprentice seamstress and by night as a dance hall girl working to wipe out her mother's mah-jongg debts. Meanwhile, 11-year-old houseboy Ren has 49 days to find his dead master's long-severed finger and bury it with the body, or the man's soul will wander the earth for all time. When one of Ji Lin's partners leaves behind a stomach-churning artifact, she and Ren work together in a world troubled by inexplicable deaths and rumors of men who become tigers. From the author who debuted with the New York Times best-selling The Ghost Bride.

     Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

9. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     February 1, 2019
     

     In the lush rural lands of 1930s British colonial Malaysia, Dr. MacFarlane's dying wish weighs heavily on 11-year-old Ren, who is tasked with finding and burying the doctor's amputated finger so his body may be whole again before the 49 days of the wandering soul are over. MacFarlane was convinced his soul would roam the jungles as a mythological tiger if Ren did not complete his mission. Meanwhile, Ji Lin is working a second job in a dance hall to help her mother pay back a gambling debt. In a tussle with an overly forward customer, she finds a specimen bottle with a preserved finger. Uneasy, Ji Lin enlists the help of her stepbrother to return the finger to the original owner, but the specter of death seems to follow them. VERDICT Choo (The Ghost Bride) presents complex characters and multilayered stories in a vivid setting that coalesce into a richly evocative and mesmerizing tale in which myths and folklore intertwine in daily life. For fans of Kate Mosse or Isabel Allende. [See Prepub Alert, 8/27/18.]--Joy Gunn, Paseo Verde Lib., Henderson, NV

     Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

10. • premium: True
    • source:
    • content:

      Starred review from December 1, 2018
      A young houseboy and a dressmaker's apprentice get drawn into a mystery in 1930s Malaya.It is May 1931, and 11-year-old Ren's master, Dr. MacFarlane, is dying. Before he takes his last breath, MacFarlane gives Ren a mission: Find the doctor's missing finger, amputated years ago and now in the possession of a friend, and bury it in his grave before the 49 days of the soul have elapsed. In another town, Ji Lin has given up dreams of university study to sew dresses during the day and work a second job in a dance hall; one evening, she is approached by a salesman who presses something into her hand during a dance: a severed finger in a glass specimen tube. By the next day, the salesman is dead--and his won't be the last mysterious death to plague the area. Ji Lin's search for the finger's owner and Ren's search for the digit itself eventually draw the two together and in the process ensnare everyone from Ji Lin's taciturn stepbrother to Ren's new master and his other household servants. Choo (The Ghost Bride, 2013) continues her exploration of Malayan folklore here with questions that point to the borders where the magical and the real overlap: Is someone murdering citizens of the Kinta Valley, or is it a were-tiger, a beast who wears human skin? Can spirits communicate with the living? Should superstitions--lucky numbers, rituals--govern a life? Choo weaves her research in with a feather-light touch, and readers will be so caught up in the natural and supernatural intrigue that the serious themes here about colonialism and power dynamics, about gender and class, are absorbed with equal delicacy.Choo has written a sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.

      COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

popularity

1739

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/ada0f9c4-514a-4eb0-a197-fbc02173cbeb/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

ada0f9c4-514a-4eb0-a197-fbc02173cbeb

starRating

4

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/{ADA0F9C4-514A-4EB0-A197-FBC02173CBEB}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Literature
3. • value: Mythology
4. • value: Historical Fiction

publishDateText

02/12/2019

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781250175458

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." —Kirkus (starred review)
An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee
Quick-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 may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.
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...

sortTitle

Night Tiger A Novel

crossRefId

4197577

subtitle

A Novel

publisher

Flatiron Books

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC010000
   • description: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
2. • code: FIC014000
   • description: FICTION / Historical / General
3. • code: FIC019000
   • description: Fiction / Literary