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By (author) Obreht Tea
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The award-winning, awe-inspiring debut novel by Tea Obreht.
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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION
”Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace” Time
”A marvel of beauty and imagination” Ann Patchett
A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall – but for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic.
Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages in the war-torn Balkans when she receives word of her beloved grandfather”s death, far from their home, in circumstances shrouded in mystery.
Compelled to unravel the truth, Natalia stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of The Jungle Book, and then to the most extraordinary story her grandfather never told her – the legend of the tiger”s wife
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One of the most
BRILLIANT (Sunday Times)
ASTONISHING (New York Times)
PRODIGIOUS (Guardian)
FORMIDABLE (Financial Times)
EXTRAORDINARY (Vogue)
writers of her generation
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Obreht”s novel is that rarity: a debut that arrives fully formed, super smart but wearing its learning lightly. Above all The Tiger”s Wife
bristles with confidence
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The brilliant black comedy and matryoshka-style narrative are among the novel”s great joys…Obreht has
prodigious talent for storytelling and imagery
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Beautifully executed, haunting and lyrical, The Tiger”s Wife is an
ambitious novel that succeeds on all counts. It”s a book you will want to read again and again
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Obreht”s landscape hovers half in and half out of fable – where villagers who daily risk being hoisted by landmines also fear malign spirits, tigers” brides and men who transform into bears… It”s a part of the world that Obreht has made her imagination”s own: r
aucous and strange and gorgeous and rather haunting. This is a pretty
formidable first novel. Here be tigers
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She is
a natural born storyteller and this is a
startlingly suggestive novel about the dying out of myths and superstitions and rituals that bind people to place: the retreat of the spirits
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This is a
distinguished work by almost any standard, and
a genuinely exciting debut… Obreht has a vibrant, rangy, full-bodied prose style, which moves expertly between realistic and mythic modes of storytelling, conjuring brilliant images on every page… a
delightful work,
as enchanting as it is surprising, and Obreht is a compelling new voice
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The Tiger”s Wife has been touted as one of 2011”s
outstanding debuts and it deserves its reputation…Weaving together fantastical tales and folklore with realism about coming to terms with loss and grief, it is also a book about the secrets people keep. This layering of stories creates a book rich in textures. Combining a mystery narrative, a family narrative and a book about the worlds of the imagination,
Téa Obreht”s novel is one that allows the reader to get lost in them
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The Tiger”s Wife, is
assured, eloquent and not easily forgotten…war is just a backdrop, religions barely identified. It is the tiger, the deathless man, and the inquisitive doctor who lead the story through its layers of modern-day reality, magical realism, and folklore..
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