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Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12:00pm
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
The Tiger’s Wife is the debut novel of an already accomplished short-story writer, who, at age 25 was the youngest member of The New Yorker’s list of 20 authors under the age of 40, “who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction.” Obreht’s novel is set in what readers can only assume is her native (former) Yugoslavia during that region’s civil war of the 1990’s. Its central figure is Natalia, a young doctor caught on what is now the wrong side of a border while doing goodwill and trying to help vaccinate orphans. Trapped in hostile territory she learns of the death of her beloved grandfather and is reminded of the folktales he always spoke of. It is here we learn of the titular “Tiger’s Wife” and Obreht’s storytelling craftsmanship launches into full swing. “Every word, every scene, every thought is blazingly alive in this many-faceted, spellbinding, and rending novel of death, succor, and remembrance” (starred review) |
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