The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST € NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER € €œSpectacular . . . [T©a Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.€€"Entertainment Weekly 

Look for T©a Obreht€s second novel, Inland, now available. 

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times € Entertainment Weekly € The Christian Science Monitor € The Kansas City Star € Library Journal

Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, T©a Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker€s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather€s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with €œthe deathless man.€ But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her€"the legend of the tiger€s wife.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal € O: The Oprah Magazine € The Economist € Vogue € Slate € Chicago Tribune € The Seattle Times € Dayton Daily News € Publishers Weekly € Alan Cheuse, NPR€s All Things Considered

€œStunning . . . a richly textured and searing novel.€€"Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

€œ[Obreht] has a talent for subtle plotting that eludes most writers twice her age, and her descriptive powers suggest a kind of channeled genius. . . . No novel [this year] has been more satisfying.€€"The Wall Street Journal  

€œFilled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand, The Tiger€s Wife is all the more remarkable for being the product not of observation but of imagination.€€"The New York Times Book Review

€œThat The Tiger€s Wife never slips entirely into magical realism is part of its magic. . . . Its graceful commingling of contemporary realism and village legend seems even more absorbing.€€"The Washington Post