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Tiger (2014)

by Tash Aw(Favorite Author)

2.76 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Kobo Australlia

review 1: This was a freebie from Kobo, a short story written by an author I've never heard of though apparently he's been long-listed for the Man Booker prize twice.The writing was beautiful and very much the sort of literary style that appeals to Man Booker judges. The story itself is a rather minimalist character drama about a Taiwanese widow named Mrs. Liu who is visiting India, hoping to see Bengal tigers, but really just wanting to meet some other women her age to make friends with. The climax comes when she goes wandering in the jungle near her hotel, but this is a literary character drama, not a thriller, so don't expect any shocking twists or revelations.It was good and worth the quick read, though if it were a chapter in a novel, I would probably find that novel boring. 3.... more5 stars: 4 stars for the writing, 3 stars for the story.
review 2: The story wasn't at all badly written, but did seem amateur. It ended rather abruptly, which sometimes works and may very well work in this one, thought I'm not sure....here's why: I felt all the way through this story it was going to have this ingenius twist, or a sudden reveal in which case, a sudden ending would work fine...and yet it ended without me figuring it out. That could be my own problem...but now I feel like I'm back in public school with sweat beading on the forehead desperately trying to answer an essay question in a reading comprehension test, and not getting it and feeling like I'm the only one....but reading other's reviews, I see I'm not alone.I will re-read this again and if that changes, I will update. Until then, this short story gets 2 stars from me....because if there really isn't something I've missed, then it's a rather dull story. I love shorts, so it's not the mere 15 pages that bothers me at all. less

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