The tiger's wife / Téa Obreht.
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TextPublisher: London : Phoenix, 2011Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 335 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 9780753827406 (pbk); 0753827409 (pbk); 9781780221922 (pbk.); 1780221924 (pbk.)Subject(s): Women physicians -- Fiction | Orphanages -- Fiction | Grandparent and child -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Balkan Peninsula -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3615.B73 | T54 2011bSummary: 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.
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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.
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