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| Author | Téa Obreht |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | London:Phoenix Books; New York:Random House |
Publication date | March 8, 2011 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover), Audiobook, eBook |
| Pages | 337 (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-34383-1 |
| OCLC | 722935450 |
The Tiger's Wife is the first novel by Téa Obreht, an American novelist of Bosniak/Slovene origin.
Story
The Tiger's Wife is set in an unnamed Balkan country, in the present and half a century ago, and features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her, primarily about the 'deathless man' who meets him several times in different places and never changes, and a deaf-mute girl from his childhood village who befriends a tiger that has escaped from a zoo. It was largely written while she was at Cornell,[1] and excerpted in The New Yorker in June 2009.[2] Asked to summarize it by a university journalist, Obreht replied, "It’s a family saga that takes place in a fictionalized province of the Balkans. It’s about a female narrator and her relationship to her grandfather, who’s a doctor. It’s a saga about doctors and their relationships to death throughout all these wars in the Balkans."[3]
Reception
The press reception has been good. The poet Charles Simic, wrote in The New York Review of Books giving his endorsement to the view that "this is a remarkable first novel." He went on to say: "Téa Obreht is an extraordinarily talented writer, skilled at combining different types of narrative — from objective depiction of events to stories mixing the fabulous and the real — in a way that brings to mind the novels of Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel García Márquez, and Milorad Pavić, the Serbian author of Dictionary of the Khazars.[4] According to the New Zealand Herald, "Reviewers have praised Obreht's vibrant imagery and skilful interweaving of fact and folklore, ritual and superstition. British paper the Sunday Times dubbed her 'a compelling new voice'; its rival the Daily Telegraph 'a natural born storyteller.'"[5] New York Times reviewer Liesl Schillinger praised the novel, saying it was "filled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand."[6]
The Tiger's Wife won the prestigious 2011 Orange Prize[7] which included a £30,000 prize, and the ‘Bessie', a limited edition bronze figurine. She was the youngest novelist ever to win the prize to date. It was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award and the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize,[8] and was a New York Times Bestseller in 2011.
References
- ^ Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ Entertainment Weekly interview, 4 March 2011: Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ Cornell Daily Sun.
- ^ NYRB dated 26 May 2011: Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ Sheehy, Christine (6 May 2011). "Introducing The Tiger's Wife". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ^ Schillinger, Liesl (11 March 2011). "A Mythic Novel of the Balkan Wars". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ^ Orange Prize site: Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ "Dylan Thomas Prize 2011 shortlist is announced". BBC News. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2011.