"You know, my mum asked me - my first book was about the marriage of the dead, and this one is about missing fingers and possible weretigers.
"Yes, it's such a cheerful story isn't it?" she says in an interview. It all happens in Yangsze Choo's new novel, The Night Tiger. Ji Lin is searching for a man who lost a finger. Ji Lin is a dancehall girl and dressmaker's assistant in 1930s Malaya who has a sudden gift pressed into her hand during a dance: a severed finger in a glass tube. MacFarland, who takes a last breath to ask the boy to find the finger amputated from the doctor years before, and to return it to him in his grave within 49 days before his soul disappears. Ren is an 11-year-old houseboy at the deathbed of his master, Dr.
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