The Tiger's Wife : Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and New York Times bestseller
The Tiger's Wife : Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and New York Times bestseller
Author: Tea Obreht
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 13 June 2019 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 368 pages
197 x 134 x 24mm | 260g
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION'Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace' Time'A marvel of beauty and imagination' Ann PatchettA 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 mostBRILLIANT (Sunday Times)ASTONISHING (New York Times)PRODIGIOUS (Guardian)FORMIDABLE (Financial Times)EXTRAORDINARY (Vogue)writers of her generation