The Tiger's Wife depicts the relationship between Natalia, a young medical professional living in a country in the Balkans, and her grandfather, a celebrated doctor who has recently passed away. Obreht's novel begins with a memory of Natalia and her grandfather visiting the city zoo to see the tigers--a routine of theirs in Natalia's www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. · The Tiger's Wife is a frisky tiger cub chasing its tail – it covers a lot of ground, growls a lot, and never quite gets there, but we have fun along the way. What the novel lacks in emotional Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht The Tiger's Wife is the debut novel of Serbian-American writer Téa Obreht. It was published in It was published in The Tiger's Wife is set in an unnamed Balkan country, spanning the mid 20th-century to the early 21st www.doorway.ru by: 4.
Author One-on-One: Jennifer Egan and Téa Obreht. Jennifer Egan is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which was also awarded the National Book Critics Circle www.doorway.ru is the author of The Keep, Look at Me, and the story collection Emerald www.doorway.ru stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope: All. Obreht's novel invites us into the heart of storytelling, but it also invites us into the places where death becomes beautiful, a young boy falls in love, and a mute girl escapes the tragedy of her life in the soft embrace of a tiger. Reviewed by Sarah Sacha Dollacker. This review first ran in the Ma issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Overview. Set in an imaginary modern-day Balkan country, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife chronicles the effects of prejudice, isolation, and war on both a personal and universal scale. Obreht's characters struggle to survive and live meaningful lives under the shadow of a lengthy war and its aftermath.
Téa Obreht lives in New York. After completing my first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, I’ve found myself indulging in a sentimental mood. I pretend that this is due to my need to retrace my steps, to see how it all came together, and, by remembering what I did before, somehow speed my next project along; in fact, I am probably just procrastinating or being insufferable, mulling over memories that, due to the late hours, were doomed to an impregnable haze a long time ago. But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. “ [Obreht] has a talent for subtle plotting that eludes most writers twice her age, and her descriptive powers suggest a kind of channeled genius. The Tiger's Wife is a frisky tiger cub chasing its tail – it covers a lot of ground, growls a lot, and never quite gets there, but we have fun along the way. What the novel lacks in emotional.
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