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The Tiger's Wife:

A Novel (Google eBook)
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156 Reviews
Random House Digital, Inc., Mar 8, 2011 - Fiction - 337 pages

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In 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 Bookand 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.

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4 stars
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Beautifully descriptive writing style. - Goodreads
Conflict drives plot. - Goodreads
I liked the “Old World European” flavour through-out. - Goodreads
The plot was convoluted and lacked momentum. - Goodreads
I liked the premise of the story. - Goodreads
And there was no strong plot. - Goodreads

Review: The Tiger's Wife

User Review  - Elliot Ratzman - Goodreads

Though the place names are made up, the book is set in the borderlands between Balkan enclaves spanning the 20th century. It reads like a seasoned work, a tribute to the young author's talent for both ... Read full review

Review: The Tiger's Wife

User Review  - Randie - Goodreads

*Updated review. Obreht, T. (2011). The tiger's wife. New York, NY: Random House. *I received this book as a first reads winner on goodreads. Natalia, a doctor, shares stories that she remembers from ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
7
Section 3
32
Section 4
81
Section 5
93
Section 6
125
Section 7
149
Section 8
190
Section 11
267
Section 12
275
Section 13
303
Section 14
324
Section 15
333
Section 16
341
Section 17
343
Section 18
345

Section 9
229
Section 10
239

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About the author (2011)

Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in New York.




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