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The Tiger’s Wife
- Author Tea Obreht
- Narrator Antonia Whillans, Paul Slack
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 10 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales.
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What to expect
'Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace' Time
'A marvel of beauty and imagination' Ann Patchett
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.
Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages in the war-torn Balkans when she receives word of her beloved grandfather's death, far from their home, in circumstances shrouded in mystery.
Compelled to unravel the truth, Natalia stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of The Jungle Book, and then to the most extraordinary story her grandfather never told her - the legend of the tiger's wife.
One of the most
BRILLIANT (Sunday Times)
ASTONISHING (New York Times)
PRODIGIOUS (Guardian)
FORMIDABLE (Financial Times)
EXTRAORDINARY (Vogue)
writers of her generation
Critics Review
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Obreht’s novel is that rarity: a debut that arrives fully formed, super smart but wearing its learning lightly. Above all The Tiger’s Wife bristles with confidence
Financial Times -
The brilliant black comedy and matryoshka-style narrative are among the novel’s great joys…Obreht has prodigious talent for storytelling and imagery
Guardian -
Beautifully executed, haunting and lyrical, The Tiger’s Wife is an ambitious novel that succeeds on all counts. It’s a book you will want to read again and again
Indpendent -
Obreht’s landscape hovers half in and half out of fable – where villagers who daily risk being hoisted by landmines also fear malign spirits, tigers’ brides and men who transform into bears… It’s a part of the world that Obreht has made her imagination’s own: raucous and strange and gorgeous and rather haunting. This is a pretty formidable first novel. Here be tigers
Financial Times -
She is a natural born storyteller and this is a startlingly suggestive novel about the dying out of myths and superstitions and rituals that bind people to place: the retreat of the spirits
Daily Telegraph -
This is a distinguished work by almost any standard, and a genuinely exciting debut… Obreht has a vibrant, rangy, full-bodied prose style, which moves expertly between realistic and mythic modes of storytelling, conjuring brilliant images on every page… a delightful work, as enchanting as it is surprising, and Obreht is a compelling new voice
Sunday Times
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