The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385343833 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Balkan culture, there’s almost a knowledge that reality will eventually become myth. You write so movingly about animals that I found myself close to tears every time you wrote about the tiger from the tiger’s point of view. Téa Obreht lives in New York. But, to my surprise, I also found a then-minor character called Dariša the Bear. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. As I’ve gotten older I think my awareness of the natural world and animals’ relationship to people--both cul
A famed physician, her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. “These stories,” Natalia comes to understand, “run like secret rivers through all the other stories” of her grandfather’s life. 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 Da
A novel of power and wisdom and beauty By the time she is thirteen, Natalia has taken so many trips with her grandfather to visit the caged tigers that she feels like a prisoner of ritual. Then a war hundreds of miles distant breaks the ritual: the zoo closes, curfews are implemented, students are disappearing, and spending time with her grandfather seems less important than committing small acts of defiance: staying out late, kissing a boyfriend behind a broken vending machine, and listening to black market recordings of Paul Simon and Johnny Cash. When her grandfather is suspended. Lyrical but disconnected zewology From the moment I first read a review of this book, I really wanted to like it. I thought the premise sounded interesting, and the author was praised for her highly superior writing skills.Well, I will agree that Tea Obreht can write a beautiful sentence; a beautiful paragraph her writing flows very well. I tend to read with a very smooth, lyrical inner voice. In many novels, this trips me up at times because the author very suddenly changes sentence structure and interrupts the flow of the writing and the words themselves. This novel was a re. Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright Jill I. Shtulman The Tiger's Wife is an audaciously original book, all the more so when one reflects that the author is only in her mid-twenties. It takes place in a Balkan location - likely Belgrade and the surrounding countryside - and focuses on a young woman - Natalia's - search for the truth about the last days of her grandfather.The narrative is woven around Natalia's remembrances of two fable-like stories narrated to her by her grandfather, which weave tighter and tighter and ultimately reveal their truths. There is a magical realism quality to these sto