5 fiercely good reads for the Tiger year
Powerful, majestic and tenacious, the tiger makes for a perfect character in fiction.
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016) by Ken Liu
The title short story won all 3 major American awards for science fiction and fantasy writing: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award. It tells the story of an American-born Chinese boy, born in the year of the Tiger, who resents his China-born mother because of her poor English. His mother, however, has a special gift of turning origami animals into living, breathing creatures, a skill she learnt in her village. Other titles in Liu's first short-story collection are equally compelling.
The Night Tiger (2019) by Yangsze Choo
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