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The tiger's wife : a novel / Téa Obreht.
Summary:
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385343848 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 353 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011.
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- Includes a reader's guide.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valemount Public Library | f obr (Text) | 35194014154116 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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, Harperâs, 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 Foundationâs list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in New York.