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The tigers wife is set in an unnamed balkan country, spanning the mid 20thcentury to the early 21st century. National book award finalist and new york times best seller. The tigers 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. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. New york times bestseller the bestselling author of the tigers wife returns with a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the american west. Tea obreht spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting.
At 25, her ability to write the tiger s wife is astonishing. Her work has appeared in the best american short stories, the new yorker. After luka died from what is believed to have been the tiger, his wife became known as the tigers wife and she is known to frequent a barn where the tiger has been seen. The tigers wife audiobook by tea obreht rakuten kobo. Mar 12, 2020 obreht is the youngest author to be named one of the new yorker s best 20 writers under 40, as well as the national book foundation s best 5 under 35. The tigers wife is the debut novel of serbianamerican writer tea obreht. Matching the resonant voices of susan duerden and robin sachs with the rich prose of obreht was a stroke of genius. It is a death that happens between continents, outside of. She was born in belgrade, in the former yugoslavia, in 1985 and has lived in the united states since the age of twelve. National book award finalist new york times bestseller spectacular. A young doctor struggles to understand the circumstances of her grandfathers death. The tigers 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.