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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle settlement none of their family had ever heard of and The Tigers Wife there alone. A famed physician, her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he left home becomes a riddle Natalia is compelled to unravel. But the most extraordinary story of all is the one her grandfather never told her, the one Natalia must discover for herself. The Tigers Wife winter during the Second World War, his childhood village was snowbound, cut off even from the encroaching German invaders but haunted by another, fierce presence: The Tigers Wife tiger who comes ever closer under cover of The Tigers Wife. And it The Tigers Wife ultimately within these rich, luminous narratives that she will The Tigers Wife the answer she is looking for. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Natalia Stefanovic. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please The Tigers Wife up. To ask other readers questions about The Tiger's Wifeplease sign up. Currently The Tigers Wife deep into this book, and it took me a while to really understand it and get into it. Not very interesting at first, didn't capture my attention. After giving it several chances I'm finally trying to finish just to get it over with. Not a book i recommend,but it has good writing and lots of hype. All in all, i still dont The Tigers Wife the point of the book? Janet Carroll I believe that the book revolves around the two stories that linger here and there throughout the book: the deathless man who argues that sudden death …more I believe that the book revolves around the two stories that linger here and there throughout the book: the deathless man who argues that sudden death is preferable to a slow dying which is what Natalia's grandfather experiences and the story of the tiger's wife which is about fear and myth. I have to agree with you, though. At first, my expectations were very high, but by the end I trudged if one can trudge reading until the end. I listened to an Audiobook and it was pretty good although I found my mind wandering at times. What actually happened to the Tiger's Wife in the end? Rachel Irvine This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ I think she was killed by a potion made up by the Apothecarist, but she wouldn't take it from him because she didn't know him, so the Apothecarist gav …more I think she was killed by a potion made up by the Apothecarist, but she wouldn't take it from him because she didn't know him, so the Apothecarist gave it to the child grandfather and he gave it to her, not knowing what it was. See all 12 questions about The Tiger's The Tigers Wife. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Tiger's Wife. Feb 22, Fergie rated it it was ok. I'm probably one of the few people who didn't "get" this book. While I give credit to Tea Obreht for her ingenuity and creativity with the story, I felt at times frustrated by the pace of the the book and the way it wound through the fantastical tales which I found more distracting than entertaining or enlightening in its detour from the main story. I kept wanting to care about the main character, Natalia, and the relationship she shared with her grandfather but felt Obreht kept me hanging and d I'm probably one of the few people who didn't "get" this book. I kept wanting to care about the main character, Natalia, and the relationship she shared The Tigers Wife her grandfather but felt Obreht kept me hanging and disappointed. It seems the book began with the promise that there would be resolution and understanding but the way Obreht went about it -- through outlandish stories told by the grandfather about other people, seemed, in the end, to me frustrating. I kept wanting to like the book but never discovered the pull necessary to keep me wanting to read more. At times, I felt that I was reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez, another author who, like Obreht, does not write for readers like me. I'm sure there is a reason the book is so esteemed and widely read but, ultimately, I am comfortable saying The Tigers Wife I didn't quite get the appeal. View all 47 comments. Mar 30, Petra-X rated it liked it Shelves: fictionreviewed. I'm in the book trade - I have a book shop. I know that all these magazines from the distributors and the newsletters from the book sites that purport to introduce us in an unbiased way to new releases are ttotally fake. Every single one of those books is paid-for advertising. And a lot of money was spent on hyping this book The Tigers Wife. Beautiful writing. Luminous eve 5 stars for hype 4 stars for beautiful writing 3 stars for interesting folk stories 2 stars for plot The Tigers Wife star for meaning 5 stars. Luminous even. Obreht has a way with words that mostly stays in the realm of readable literature and only occasionally strays into the boringly The Tigers Wife descriptions of place and landscape that the eye skims over. Folk stories. There are two main stories in the book. The story of the deathless man is most interesting because it is about a person, mythical or not, and people tend to be interested in reading about other people with personalities. The second story, that of the tiger and the deaf-mute The Tigers Wife nicknamed its wife is less so. But it is actually based on the story of a tiger that did escape the zoo in the war and haunted the hills above the town. What plot? The protagonist wants to find out why her dying doctor grandfather chose this place to die and why he died alone. That is the loose plot The Tigers Wife hangs together the folk stories that the grandfather told his granddaughter. The ending didn't really explain anything. Others have understood it, have seen meaning in it maybe, but not me. It was a let down. View all 39 comments. Apr 02, TheGirlBytheSeaofCortez rated it liked it Shelves: literary-fiction The Tigers Wife, contemporary-authorseastern-european-literaturefolktales. Civil war in the Balkans has left that region bereft and in need. Althou Civil war in the Balkans has left that region bereft and in need. He is never The Tigers Wife it. It is from her grandfather that Natalia, who seems to be a stand-in for the author, has come to love tigers, herself. However, what disrupted his life more than his inability to practice medicine was the closing of the city zoo. For that reason, he travels with wars and epidemics, and has been cursed with agelessness, something many people think they would enjoy. They give something to the The Tigers Wife. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it. Almost everyone feared the tiger greatly, as well they should. All, that is, but the deaf-mute wife of the abusive local butcher, who has mysteriously disappeared. The townspeople believed his The Tigers Wife might have killed him, and they also believed this same wife fed and cared for the tiger. But, I really wanted to understand. If the book seems to be obsessed with death and with how people come to terms with death, it is. It is The Tigers Wife about the responsibilities the living owe the dead, and what has the power to The Tigers Wife on, if not individually, then in the collective imagination. As Natalia and Zora continue with their medical mission to the The Tigers Wife, they come into contact with a family who is searching for the body of a hastily buried relative, one buried in a vineyard during the war, and one the family has now come to retrieve. The family wants to rebury the man, so that they, and he, have peace. Obreht writes The Tiger's Wife - Wikipedia

The Tigers Wife Tiger's Wife depicts the relationship between Nataliaa young medical professional living in a country in the Balkans, and her grandfather, a celebrated doctor who has recently passed away. Obreht's novel begins with a memory of Natalia and her grandfather visiting the city zoo to see the tigers--a routine of theirs in Natalia's childhood. From there, the novel shifts closer to the present day: the adult Natalia and a friend of hers, Zoraare on their way to the town The Tigers Wife Brejevina, where The Tigers Wife will administer medicine to the orphans in a local monastery. During the trip, Natalia learns of her grandfather's death. Nonetheless, she continues on to the home of her hosts, Barba Ivan and his wife Nada. New tasks and conflicts arise during Natalia's time in Brejevina. She encounters a group of relatives, who are trying to locate the remains of a long-buried cousin and whose children are unwell; she also travels to a small town, Zdrevkov, to retrieve her deceased grandfather's belongings. However, large portions of the narrative are structured as memories of Natalia's childhood and adolescence, which were shaped by the chaos and warfare that her generation as a whole encountered. She also relays a large amount of information about her grandfather and about two mysterious figures that shaped his life, the Deathless Man and the Tiger's Wife. The Deathless Man, Gavran Gaile, met Natalia's grandfather on three separate occasions: in a town suffering from a public sickness, at a pilgrimage site, and in the town of Sarobor during a state of siege. However, Gavo declines to take the pledged item. On the later The Tigers Wife, the The Tigers Wife Man explains more about his background he has been condemned to live eternally by his uncle and reveals that his ideas about death and knowledge have evolved he comes to believe that it is best never to tell people that they are going to die, so that they do not panic. The Tiger's Wifewhose true name is never known, is The Tigers Wife deaf-mute Muslim girl from the rural town of Galina, where Natalia's grandfather grew up. During World War II, a tiger escaped from the city zoo and made its way into the countryside, finally settling on Galina's outskirts. The Tiger's Wife, who had married the town butcher, fed the animal pieces of meat. Other villagers panicked, and some of the men--including the butcher, a stern and violent man named Luka --made a failed attempt to hunt the The Tigers Wife down. Over The Tigers Wife, superstitions and fears The Tigers Wife up The Tigers Wife the Tiger's Wife. Luka, who had once been a sensitive man and a musician of some skill, mysteriously disappears. The Tiger's Wife is then found to be pregnant: many villagers believe that she is carrying the devil's child, yet Natalia's grandfather and his grandmother, Mother Verashow the isolated young woman some kindness. Determined to eradicate the tiger, the people of Galina enlist the help of Darisa the Beara celebrated hunter. Yet Darisa also fails. Evidence of his death is found by Marko Parovic the same man who provides Natalia with much of her information about Galina and its lore. The men of the town are ready to take action against the Tiger's Wife. However, the town apothecary avoids a larger conflict by The Tigers Wife the Tiger's Wife into drinking poison, and makes Natalia's grandfather an unknowing participant in this ruse. By the end of the novel, the diggers have successfully unearthed their cousin. Natalia volunteers to The Tigers Wife watch in a vigil for them and, while doing so, discovers new information about her hosts: Barba Ivan has been pretending to be a spirit known as a mora which collects grave offerings. He also tells Natalia about his The Tigers Wife son, Arlo. In her final section of reminiscences, Natalia states that she has kept Barba Ivan's activities a secret, and explains the fates of The Tigers Wife few of her other companions. Zora now works at the Neurology Institute in Zurich, and Natalia's grandfather is regarded as a hero among younger doctors: after all, he had gone to Zdrevkov in an attempt The Tigers Wife save two boys who had been injured by a land mine. Yet his copy of The Jungle Book has disappeared. For its part, the tiger continues to haunt the people of Galina, having achieved something like immortality in their minds, and in Natalia's. Remember me. Forgot your password? Buy Study Guide. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht: Summary and reviews

I n the surreal and yet all-too-real opening scene of Emir Kusturica's film Undergroundthe Nazis bomb Belgrade zoo, causing the panicked animals to run for their lives. The Tigers Wife was 60 years ago, the narrator Natalia tells us, but the complicated story of what happened to the tiger and the people of Galina lives on. It's now rekindled by the death of Natalia's beloved grandfather. He was a native of Galina and just a boy when the tiger appeared. The key to her grandfather's life and death "lies between two stories: the story of the tiger's wife, and the story of the deathless man". Natalia has followed in her grandfather's steps and become a doctor in "the City". On hearing of his death, she takes us on a labyrinthine journey to investigate. He has been The Tigers Wife constant companion — their weekly visit to the city zoo was a ritual. A humanist schooled in the old tradition, he remained loyal The Tigers Wife his patients even after he was expelled from the university for political reasons. He never parted with his copy of The Jungle Booknot even when a mysterious stranger dubbed "the deathless man" won it in a bet to prove his immortality to the rational doctor. The deathless man is presented as a key piece in the puzzle, along with the bear-man, the tormented butcher- musician, his long-suffering and deaf Muslim wife who becomes the tiger's wife for reasons too complicated to explain here, and a whole menagerie of other rural The Tigers Wife curiosities whose stories are The Tigers Wife by a collective genius of superstition. The brilliant black comedy and matryoshka-style narrative are among the novel's great joys. But they are also one of the problems: after meeting innumerable exotic characters, it dawned on me that the back-stories stand in The Tigers Wife a story, and style stands in for emotion. Obreht's imagination The Tigers Wife seductively extravagant and prone to folkloric hyperbole, and this makes parts of the novel read like a picaresque The Tigers Wife through some enchanted Balkan kingdom, rife with magic, murder and mayhem. Who cares, it's all a fable about a war — no, several wars — in some unnamed land. No real places or persons are named: Tito is "the Marshall", Belgrade is "the City", and we are in "a Balkan country still scarred by war". But there is a sorrow that sometimes undercuts the flights of fancy, and this saves The Tiger's Wife from being a freak show. Obreht's — and Natalia's — real journey is back in time, and the real investigation here The Tigers Wife of the difficult times, violent death and crippled afterlife of that mythical place once called Yugoslavia. The puzzle is Yugoslavia itself. The zoo was bombed again in Natalia's own time, the s. The wolves ate their cubs, The Tigers Wife the tiger, called Zbogom or Farewell, ate his own legs: a powerful metaphor for Serbia-Yugoslavia devouring her own children. This novel is a spirited attempt to cram her entire cultural and family heritage into a story. Modern Yugoslav fiction and film have tended towards the absurd, the hyperbolic and the surreal for a good reason: putting Yugoslavia's history into a coherent narrative is hard even for historians. Obreht has prodigious talent for storytelling and imagery, so it seems only a matter of time before she writes something truly great. The Tiger's Wife is a frisky tiger cub chasing its tail — it covers a lot of ground, growls a lot, and never quite gets there, but we have fun along the way. What the novel lacks in emotional depth, it makes up for in personality and sheer wackiness. But the real delirium — and the real emotion — doesn't lie in the stories of tiger-men, bear-men, deathless men and their consorts. It's found in the students of medicine in the war-stricken "City" trying to get skulls on the black market. It's there when the grandfather is tipped off by Serbian mercenaries about their plan to bomb the Muslim-dominated town of Sarobor read Mostar of the destroyed bridgeand instead of getting out of The Tigers Wife fast, he goes to an old restaurant, where a poignantly polite waiter serves him a last feast. The Tigers Wife remembers his life here with his Bosnian wife, he bids farewell to the old Yugoslavia, and muses that "my name, your name, her name. The Tigers Wife the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground. Topics Fiction. Reuse this The Tigers Wife. Order by The Tigers Wife oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded. Loading comments… Trouble loading? Most popular.