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The tiger's wife [electronic resource] : a novel / T�ea Obreht.

Obreht, T�ea. (Author).

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: 9780679604365 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0679604367 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 p.)
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, c2011.

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Subject:
Women physicians > Fiction.
Orphanages > Fiction.
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Balkan Peninsula > Fiction.
Genre:
EBOOK.
Electronic books.

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English (3)

Electronic resources


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.

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.