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The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (Paperback, 2011)
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As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising villagers, the body of her grandfather turns up in a hospital in the middle of nowhere. She and her family have no idea why. Recalling stories he told her as a child, she becomes convinced that he went in search of the Deathless Man, a mythical figure, that her grandfather claimed to have met a number of times in his life. In her quest to find out how her grandfather, a man of hard fact and science, could turn to this fantasy, she discovers something particular about his childhood: a tiger escaped from a zoo during World War II bombings and wandered deep into the woods, settling just outside his peasant village. It terrorised the town, the devil incarnate to everyone, except for her grandfather and 'the tiger's wife'...Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139780753827406
eBay Product ID (ePID)108461264
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Book TitleThe Tiger's Wife
AuthorTea Obreht
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTrue Stories, Books
Publication Year2011
GenreFairy Tale
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height196mm
Item Width132mm
Item Weight244g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTea Obreht
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 15 Jan, 2017
A wonderful story
The story follows a women, a young doctor, who has recently learned that her grandfather has died. He's a man she was close to as a girl, who used to take her to the city zoo to see the tiger, and who would tell her stories about his life. It's not clear where the story is set, I don't think the country is ever mentioned, but it's somewhere in the Balkans and after the Second World War. Two major stories from her grandfather's life are shared: That of the tiger's wife and that of the deathless man. The tiger's wife is a deaf mute women who he knew growing up in a remote village, before he left to become a doctor. The deathless man is a strange man he met several times during his life, who claimed to be unable to die but able to accurately predict the time and nature of the deaths of others. Although the women, Natalia, is telling the story, it's really more about her grandfather and in turn, about her country and its cultures and history. Myth and fact are blended carefully, with the more outlandish parts of the story told more through her grandfather. It's a slightly sad but very satisfying story and is intensely compelling. It made me want to read more of Tea Obreht's writing.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
