The tiger's wife
By: Téa Obreht
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Orange Prize for Fiction
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781445869469; 9781445869476
Subjects: Women physicians; Fiction; Orphanages; Grandparent and child; Family secrets
Description: Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: New York : Random House, 2011.