- Format: CD
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781250316998
- Utgivelsesår: 2019
- Bidragsyter: Choo, Yangsze
"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." ¿ San Francisco Chronicle
This program is read by the author.
A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.
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