East Asian Literary Fiction

The Night Tiger

by Yangsze Choo

In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dancehall girl and a houseboy-turned-apprentice are drawn into parallel quests involving a severed finger, tiger lore, and ghosts who demand their debts be paid. Two mysteries converge in a lush, folkloric thriller steeped in Chinese superstition and the colonial tensions of the era.

More East Asian Literary Fiction

• Run, Melos! and Other Stories — Osamu Dazai
• The Devotion of Suspect X — Alexander O. Smith
• Strange Weather in Tokyo — Hiromi Kawakami
• Sweet Bean Paste — Alison Watts
• I'll Be Right There — Sora Kim-Russell
• Molka — Monika Kim
• The Honjin Murders — Seishi Yokomizo / Louise Heal Kawai
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima

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