In the first part of my interview with Yangsze Choo, we discussed the influence of her Malaysian-Chinese heritage in The Night Tiger. In the second part, we talk about her approach to writing fiction. LB: What/who influences your writing? YC: Ooh! There are so many writers that I love — among them, Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Diana Wynne Jones, Tana French… so many wonderful books. And that’s not even including graphic novels which I think have really taken off more recently. I …
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New York Times best-selling novelist Yangsze Choo is fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Both of her novels — The Ghost Bride and The Night Tiger — include Malaysian-Chinese culture …
What first intrigued me about Yangsze Choo’s The Night Tiger was its Malaysian setting and that its main character was Malaysian-Chinese. I’m half Irish and half Malaysian-Chinese, and the books …
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