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“The Tiger’s Wife is a marvel of beauty and
imagination. Téa Obreht is a tremendously talented writer.” –
Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Bel
Canto and Run
"Anovel of surpassing beauty, exquisitely wrought and
magical. Téa Obreht is a towering new talent." – T.C.
Boyle
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''Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger
and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of
1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started
falling over the city and did not stop for three days. The tiger
did not know that they were bombs...'' 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 - Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle
Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she
is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the
Balkans. On this journey, she receives word of her beloved
grandfather''s death, far from their home, in circumstances shrouded
in mystery. From fragments of stories her grandfather told her as a
child, Natalia realises he may have died searching for ''the
deathless man'', a vagabond who was said to be immortal. Struggling
to understand why a man of science would undertake such a quest,
she stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of
The Jungle Book, and then to the extraordinary story of the tiger''s
wife.
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Tea Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia,
emigrating to the US in 1997. She was the youngest author on The
New Yorker''s Top 20 Writers under 40 List, and one of the youngest
authors ever to be extracted in the magazine. Her short story, ''The
Laugh'', debuted in The Atlantic Fiction Issue and was then chosen
for The Best American Short Stories 2010, while her short story,
''The Sentry'' appeared in the Guardian Summer Fiction Issue
alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell. She lives in
New York.
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