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Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. A first novel. 18,000 first printing.
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The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- The Tiger's Wife
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Téa Obreht
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 337
- ISBN10
- 0385343833
- ISBN13
- 9780385343831
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Military Fiction, Wars, Death, Mythology, Memories, Past, Magical Realism, Family secrets, Searching for the meaning of life, Balkans, Yugoslavia, Immortality, Grandfather, Tigers, Balkan Wars
- Original title
- The Tiger´s Wife
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. A first novel. 18,000 first printing.