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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Epic FantasyFantasy
Pages
176
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

Snowbound at a remote mountain way station, the traveling cleric Chih and their companions are cornered by a trio of hungry tigers — and the only way out is a story. What follows is a tale told twice: the human account of the scholar Dieu and her doomed love for Ho Thi Thao, a shapeshifting tiger, set against the tigers' own furious version of the very same events. A lush, sly novella about love, survival, and who gets to decide how a story is remembered. The second book of the Singing Hills Cycle.

Prose complexity
7/10

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WhimsicalAdventurousAtmosphericRomantic
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Genres

Epic Fantasy Fantasy Folklore LGBTQ+ Romance Cozy Fantasy

About the author

N
Nghi Vo

Nghi Vo was born December 4, 1981, in Peoria, Illinois, and lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, Lightspeed, and Fireside. Her debut novella, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, opened the Singing Hills Cycle and won the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the Crawford Award; the series follows a wandering cleric collecting stories across an empire modeled on classical Asian court drama. She has also written the nove...