When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain - Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

By Nghi Vo

  • Release Date: 2020-12-08
  • Genre: Epic Fantasy
Score: 4.5
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Description

From Locus and Ignyte finalist, Crawford Award winner, and bestselling author Nghi Vo comes the second installment in a Hugo Award-winning series

"A stunning gem of a novella that explores the complexity and layers of storytelling and celebrates the wonder of queer love. I could read about Chih recording tales forever."—Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today."—Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen

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 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, a mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.

The Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Into the Riverlands
Mammoths at the Gates
The Brides of High Hill

The novellas of The Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih, but may be read in any order, with each story serving as an entry point.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Reviews

  • Stories within stories

    5
    By Team Leader 77
    I love the way this novella tells a tale within another tale, or should I say tail. I feel immersed in the world created by these pages that feel too few and I look forward to the next story.

  • A Beautiful Story Within a Story

    5
    By Prairie_Dog
    “When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain” is the second novella in the Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo. It is a fantasy, set in a Asian-inspired alternate world. The novella tells a story nestled within a story. In the beginning story, Chih, a Cleric of the Singing Hills Temple is taken into the mountains by a member of the mammoth riding corps. When they reach their way station for the evening, they are menaced by three tigers. Chih speaks respectfully to these tigers, who then assume their human forms, and he engages them in conversation seeking to prevent them from attacking the party. He then begins to tell them the story within the story, which is about a poor scholar who meets a tiger on the way to take the Imperial Examinations. The world in which this story is set resembles a medieval Asia of our world, but has a few supernatural and alternate historical differences. In addition to tigers who can assume human form, there are the mammoths. These elephantine animals are used by the northern people as mounts and in war. It’s a great story, and I look forward to future tales in the Singing Hills Cycle.

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