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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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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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Thank you, Kirsten.

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

Great review and I agree completely.

While praising Obreht for writing with great lyrical force, some have criticized her for writing a disjointed novel. I disagree. Her novel's central question asks, "How do people respond to death?" The setting is the Balkans, an area with complex histories and cultures -- all wrestling with death in one form or another: death from disease, from poverty and from violence both small within the walls of a family's home or large-scale as with air raid bombing. Death stalks the people of the Balkans

What do you say in a moment like this? When you can't find the words to tell it like it is. Just bite your tongue and let your heart lead the way. Lyrics from What do you say? Reba McEntireFriends, I am literally drawing strength from a country song as I write this review. Please cover your eyes and plug your ears and know that it's not you, it's me. I have read thousands of reviews( okay maybe a slight exaggeration ) in the last 24 hours, including many literary critics and interviews with

I cannot recommend this book. I have given it only two stars. I am almost thinking of giving this one star. I will be very specific in listing what disturbed me. Let me mention immediately that those readers who enjoy fantasy novels will enjoy this more than I did. The events are so fantastical that I cannot classify this as a book of magical realism, but rather fantasy! I love magical realism, but dislike fantasy. The themes covered are war, Balkan myths, death and mans relationship to animals.

Let's be honest...I didn't really have a big desire to read this one. I ordered it to check it out since this author has a new book coming out. After a red-eye flight I had a very long drive and needed something to keep me awake. I figured what the heck, try this out.....and then, I was totally hookedI was immediately drawn into the story. I binged, spent the entire weekend wanting to hear more. Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. She is very close