FREE THE TIGERS WIFE PDF OBREHT TEA | 352 pages | 01 Mar 2012 | Not Avail | 9780812983074 | English | United States The Tiger’s Wife Summary | GradeSaver 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.