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The tiger's wife : a novel / Téa Obreht.

Obreht, Téa. (Author).

Summary:

Natalia, a young doctor on a medical mission to an orphanage in the Balkans, ponders the mystery of her beloved grandfather's recent death. She finds the answers she seeks in the story of an abused deaf-mute woman in the village of his childhood who formed a bond with a tiger that escaped from the zoo following the German bombardment in 1941.

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  • ISBN: 9780385343848
  • ISBN: 0385343841
  • ISBN: 0385343833
  • Physical Description: 353 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: Random House Trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a reader's guide.
Citation/References Note:
Booklist starred
Library Journal Starred
Wilson's Fiction
Booklist starred, February 2011
Kirkus Review, January 2011
Library Journal Starred, January 2011
New York Times, March 2011
Pub Weekly, January 2011
Wilson's Fiction, January 2012
Target Audience Note:
Adult
Adult Follett Library Resources

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Women physicians > Fiction.
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