The Tiger's Wife
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Téa Obreht
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle) “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly “Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace.”—TimeONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times; Entertainment Weekly; The Christian Science Monitor; The Kansas City Star; Library JournalIn a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, hailed by Colum McCann as “the most thrilling literary discovery in years,” has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Economist, Vogue, Slate, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, Dayton Daily News, Publishers Weekly, Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered
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Author
Téa Obreht
Pages
352
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-03-08
ISBN
0679604367 9780679604365
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"Wow. I cared so little for this book that I almost forgot to finish reading it after being distracted by something else. Only remembered it when I was looking at my Kindle library and saw it there and couldn't remember how it ended. Reading the last couple of chapters didn't improve my opinion."
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Lauren
"I had a hard time ever getting into this book, and finally by page 250 I was so annoyed that I gave up trying to stick with it. The unnamed setting really bothered me - the back of the book only says "Balkan" country which I know zero about, so I was trying to picture where things were happening and could not get a visual going. That really made me feel distant from what was going on and I don't understand the purpose for leaving information about the setting out of the writing.<br/><br/>I was mildly interested in Natalia's present-day story, although even by page 200 I still felt I knew very little about her, not much about what she was doing at this clinic, and almost nothing about her friendship with Zora. Every time I started to get involved in what was happening with her, the book veered off course to one of several stories that the narrator's grandfather had told her. The sections with the deathless man were entertaining, and I trudged my way through Luka & the tiger's wife's story. I had just enough time to get re-interested in Natalia's story when the author started yet another story about Darisa the bear and I gave up. I'm sure all of these stories come together in some way at the end, but frankly I stopped caring about how that would happen. <br/><br/>I usually love books with multiple stories that all overlap at some point, but for some reason this book just did not appeal to me!"
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Gretchen Nord