The Tiger's Wife
Author(s): Tea Obreht
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "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" "" SELECTED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times Entertainment Weekly The Christian Science Monitor The Kansas City Star Library Journal" 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 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. Look for special features inside.Join the Circle for author chats and more."
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Tea 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. Tea Obreht lives in New York."
General Fields
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- : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
- : Bantam Doubleday Dell
- : 0.34
- : 11 June 2022
- : 201mm X 132mm X 28mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tea Obreht
- : Paperback / softback
- : 813.6
- : 353
- : black white illustrations