When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Nghi Vo

Elektroninė knyga, 128 psl.

English kalba

Publikuota 2020 m. gruodžio 7 d., Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-78616-6

(4 atsiliepimai)

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history.

Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and The Singing Hills Cycle in this mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.

3 leidimai

ju apžvelgė autoriaus Nghi Vo knygą When the Tiger Came down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

Another wonderful novella

5 žvaigždutės

A perfect read for an automn evening with a cup of tea. Nghi Vo is an incredible storyteller, who never loses the reader in her stories of stories told by storytellers as well as tigers. In her world, tigers fall in love in young humans, or sometimes eat them, and sit around the fire listening and re-telling their side of the old stories... It is quite magic.

loppear apžvelgė autoriaus Nghi Vo knygą When the Tiger Came down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

a lovely bite

3 žvaigždutės

Storytelling layers and drama packed so neatly, but this didn't have the depth of the first one for me.

Tak! apžvelgė autoriaus Nghi Vo knygą When the Tiger Came down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

4 žvaigždutės

I enjoyed this one a bit more than Empress of Salt and Fortune, I think because the tension between the tellers and the listeners adds a hint of excitement that I was missing in the first one

Martin Kopischke apžvelgė autoriaus Nghi Vo knygą When the Tiger Came down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

Highly recommended

4 žvaigždutės

I wasn’t quite sure how Nghi Vo would continue after her Empress of Salt and Fortune – after all, her main character Chih, the recording monk, is hardly fit to carry sustained narratives. I needn’t have worried: this never tries to burden them with that task.

Instead, we are treated (and what a treat it is) to another take on the magic of storytelling and the nature of truth. If Empress was all about the true story lying hidden, this is about how the truth of stories is negotiable. Formally consistent with, and sharing the same rich world building as its predecessor, this second instalment is as enjoyable as the first, a wonderful feat of complex storytelling happening without any of the usual fanfare.

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