Format:
Book
Title:
The tiger's wife : a novel / Téa Obreht.
Author:
Obreht, Téa.
Call Number:
FIC OBREHT T
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : The Dial Press, c2011.
Description:
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Subjects:
Women physicians -- Fiction.
Orphanages -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Balkan Peninsula -- Fiction.
Adult core collection.
ISBN:
0385343833
9780385343831 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780385343848