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Sun: 10am-6pm One night, Ji Lin's dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. As time runs out for Ren's mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. Call us on: +442033020460 In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin's paths will cross in ways they will never forget. Author: Yangsze Choo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 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. Mon: closedTue: 10am-6pmWed: 10am-6pmThu: 10am-9pmFri: 10am-9pmSat: 10am-6pm " --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. A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.
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MomiTomi
There are gems of folklore and Chinese beliefs throughout…. The colours both on the cover and inside the story are bright and alive. Loved how the book flowed, once she got all the characters fleshed out. .
The booktrail
Vivid, raw and real “Fourty- four is an unlucky number for Chinese. It's the perfect mix of immersive reading for BookTrail purposes! I really enjoyed this and thought it more of an experience than a book.
If then you talk about dead people’s souls which can get stuck on earth, who can then turn into tigers, I would have really started to wonder. held my attention to the very end. It sounds like ‘die, definately die’ and as a result, the number four and all its iterations are to be avoided. ”It’s poetic and lyrical throughout and reads like a piece of music with its swirling images, lush forest like descriptions which shimmer in the Malaysian heat which emanates from the page.
That cover is just gorgeous! There are so many themes explored here – the colonial times of course, but also the relationship between master and servant, superstitions, culture, belief systems and the need to do what is right. The writing is just glorious.
This novel however is one of the most magical and fascinating novels I’ve read in a long time. Aspects of Magic and magical realism shimmer and make this a sumptuous piece of writing. If you’d said I would enjoy a novel where the characters are on the search for a missing finger, I might have looked at you funny.
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