When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

As Alexandra Erin notes, it’s why there is a real sense in which Twilight is better written than Dracula it’s why even quite faithful retellings- Madeline Miller’s Circe springs to mind-can succeed: by stepping closer, decompressing, making obviously fictional archetypes less mythic, more human. “Show don’t tell” writ large, an attempt to capture the emotional significance by getting really close, with human observation. There seems to be a general writerly drive-or readerly desire-to fill in, expand, tell more. Where a fairy tale or earlier fiction might just say “they traveled for a month,” the more modern approach is likely to tell you what that felt like, what they wore and ate and thought about, the weather or the landscape,letting detail and conversation fill pages. 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.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.A general move that most fantasy has made, perhaps most fiction has made, is to zoom in, to show more, to unpack rather than summarize. The Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle 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. 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. The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. 'Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today.'-Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen I could read about Chih recording tales forever.'-Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

'A stunning gem of a novella that explores the complexity and layers of storytelling and celebrates the wonder of queer love.

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

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo