The Tiger's Wife, (Paperback)

from mrstreme

It takes a talented writer to infuse stories of folklore and reality into a book that's both captivating and realistic. It's not an easy recipe for storytelling, but sometimes the best stories are the hardest ones to tell. I think that's the case in Tea Obreht's debut novel, The Tiger's Wife. Set...

from porch_reader

I read about Tea Obreht when she was named as one of the New Yorker's twenty best American writers under forty, so I was excited to get this book as an Early Reviewer. Obreht has written a story that weaves together many threads. At its core, we meet Natalia, a doctor in a Balkan country that has...

from souloftherose

This is a complex tale set in unnamed Balkan states (although I think they were Serbia and Croatia or Bosnia) with the narrative split into several different strands. In one strand we follow Natalia, a trainee doctor, as she travels to a children's orphanage to vaccinate them. On her way their sh...

from -Cee-

In the isolation of small Balkan villages, folklore and superstition are woven through the fabric of life and death to try to explain what is puzzling and unknown. Tea Obreht, the young author of "The Tiger's Wife", was born into the culture of Eastern Europe which carries the heavy burden of con...

from TheAmpersand

I still haven't made my mind up about "The Tiger's Wife," and I don't know if my conflicted feelings about the book have more to do with the book itself or how I'm supposed to think about it. Let me explain: I expect many readers would probably say that "The Tiger's Wife" fits pretty comfortably ...