Obreht, Téa,
The tiger's wife / Téa Obreht. - Paperback edition. - 335 pages ; 20 cm
"A Phoenix paperback"--Title page verso.
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.
9780753827406 (pbk) 0753827409 (pbk) 9781780221922 (pbk.) 1780221924 (pbk.)
Women physicians--Fiction.
Orphanages--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Balkan Peninsula--Fiction.
PS3615.B73 / T54 2011b
813/.6
The tiger's wife / Téa Obreht. - Paperback edition. - 335 pages ; 20 cm
"A Phoenix paperback"--Title page verso.
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.
9780753827406 (pbk) 0753827409 (pbk) 9781780221922 (pbk.) 1780221924 (pbk.)
Women physicians--Fiction.
Orphanages--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Balkan Peninsula--Fiction.
PS3615.B73 / T54 2011b
813/.6