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The Tiger's Wife

Téa Obreht

Hardcover | Pages: 338 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 85462 Users | 10550 Reviews

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Title	:	The Tiger's Wife
Author	:	Téa Obreht
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 338 pages
Published	:	March 8th 2011 by Random House
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Magical Realism. Literary Fiction. Book Club. War. Contemporary

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Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.

In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.

But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle settlement none of their family had ever heard of and died there alone. A famed physician, her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he left home becomes a riddle Natalia is compelled to unravel.

Grief struck and searching for clues to her grandfather’s final state of mind, she turns to the stories he told her when she was a child. On their weeklytrips to the zoo he would read to her from a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which he carried with him everywhere; later, he told her stories of his own encounters over many years with “the deathless man,” a vagabond who claimed to be immortal and appeared never to age. But the most extraordinary story of all is the one her grandfather never told her, the one Natalia must discover for herself. One winter during the Second World War, his childhood village was snowbound, cut off even from the encroaching German invaders but haunted by another, fierce presence: a tiger who comes ever closer under cover of darkness. “These stories,” Natalia comes to understand, “run like secret rivers through all the other stories” of her grandfather’s life. And it is ultimately within these rich, luminous narratives that she will find the answer she is looking for.

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Original Title:	The Tiger's Wife
ISBN:	0385343833 (ISBN13: 9780385343831)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Natalia Stefanovic
Setting:	Balkans
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (2011), Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Nominee (2012), Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut (2012), NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2011), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2012) 本屋大賞 for Translated Fiction (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2013)

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I think it's interesting to look at the literature coming out now that has to do with building a mythology. Is it because of the incredible works of people like Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino and others who have influenced so strongly this generation? Or is it that as we become increasingly godless and mythless, there is something to the human that needs the myth to survive. I am reminded by the knitting and food preserving revolutions that have exploded, something that

I agree with you completely. I loved this book I didn't want to leave...it spoke to me so deeply.

One of those books that casts a spell from which you emerge so reluctantly after the last word. The cycles of death and rebirth, superstition and truth, love and revenge weave through the legends and family stories of the Balkans and the quests of two doctors, a modern young woman and her beloved grandfather. "When your fight has purpose--to free you from something, to interfere on behalf of the innocent--it has the hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling-- when it is about your



This is the first book I read for my Around the World challenge, and what a way to start. The reason I have both Yugoslavia and Croatia listed is that the locations are intentionally unnamed or made up throughout the novel. Obreht does this on purpose to disassociate story from place, since so much of the turmoil in that area of the world is caused by family name endings and minor differences.The story is about two generations of doctors in a family - the grandfather and the granddaughter, and

I'm probably one of the few people who didn't "get" this book. While I give credit to Tea Obreht for her ingenuity and creativity with the story, I felt at times frustrated by the pace of the the book and the way it wound through the fantastical tales which I found more distracting than entertaining or enlightening in its detour from the main story. I kept wanting to care about the main character, Natalia, and the relationship she shared with her grandfather but felt Obreht kept me hanging and

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