The Tiger’s Wife

top This astonishing novel from one of the youngest writers ever to debut in The New Yorker is a transcendent tale of love, grieving, war, and courage. “A hugely ambitious, audaciously written work… It’s not so much magical realism in the tradition of Gabriel GarciaMarquez or Gunter Grass as it is an extraordinarily limber exploration of allegory and myth…A richly textured and searing novel.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Tea Obreht’sfirst novel is drawn in equal measure from the deep well of cultural legend and the pure wonder-struck imagination of a born storyteller. The time: the present. The place: a Balkan country ravaged by civil bloodshed. Grieving for her grandfather, a young doctor struggles to determine why he left their family to die alone in a field hospital far from home. Growing convinced that her grandfather was searching for an odd character from his past--a vagabond who called himself ”the deathless man”--Natalia sets out to find him as well. But the deathless man is only one part of the larger mystery of her grandfather’s final days.作者簡介 Tea Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She lives in Ithaca, New York