Title: The tiger's wife
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.
Subjects: Family secrets, Grandparent and child, Fiction, Women physicians, Orphanages, Grief, Secrets, Memory, Grandparent-grandchild relationship, Secrecy, Superstition, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-03-27, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, Women physicians, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Balkan peninsula, fiction