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The Tiger's Wife

by Téa Obreht

Calm, authoritative and compassionate, Téa Obreht’s debut novel portrays a wisdom far beyond her years.

Grounded in the tradition of fables and superstition, The Tiger’s Wife explores the futility of war and the strength of the human character from within the setting of a cross-generational relationship. When Natalia learns of her grandfather’s death, she spends the forty days of mourning revisiting his childhood – most notably, his encounters with the tiger’s wife and the deathless man.

Piecing together memories and the stories he has told her over the years, Natalia’s soul goes on a journey of its own. Slow and resonant, with deep connections to One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Tiger’s Wife is deserving of a careful read, which will not be without reward.

 

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

  • Téa Obreht

    Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia and raised in Belgrade. In 1992 her family moved to Cyprus and then to Egypt, where she learned to speak and read English, eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Téa received her MFA in Fiction from the Creative Writing Program at Cornell University in 2009. Téa was featured in The New Yorker's Top 20 Writers under 40 Fiction Issue (June 2010) and at 24, was the youngest on the list. Her short story, 'The Laugh', debuted in The Atlantic fiction issue and was then chosen for The Best American Short Stories 2010, a further short story, 'The Sentry', featured in the Guardian Summer Fiction Issue. Her journalism has appeared in Harper’s magazine and she lives in Ithaca, New York.

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