NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED 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
Tiger's Wife, The
✍ Scribed by Téa, Obreht
- Book ID
- 107976696
- Publisher
- Windsor
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
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**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** _
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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_** _
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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.
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