The Tigers Wife Tea Obreht by Tea Obreht 9781474613811, 1474613810 instant download after payment.

A spellbinding journey through the troubled history and colourful folklore of the Balkans, from the youngest ever winner of the Orange Prize.

"Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace."  -  Time Magazine

Natalia is on a quest: to discover the truth about her beloved grandfather. He has died far from home, in circumstances shrouded in mystery. Recalling stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia suspects he may have died trying to unravel two mysteries. One was the fate of a tiger that escaped during German bombing raids in 1941; the other was a man who claimed to be immortal. But, as Natalia learns, there are no simple truths or easy answers in this landscape echoing with myths but still scarred by war. 

"The Tiger's Wife rests securely in the genre of magical realism, inciting comparisons to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and even Kafka. In terms of structure and pacing, Obreht still has a way to go — the conclusion of the novel comes at the reader too abruptly, leaving us startled. But her attention to detail in creating a believable world — in spite of its magical elements — is the work of a mature storyteller."  -  Jessica Ferri, NPR

"Perhaps it is this gift - the ability to show and obscure in the same instant - that accounts for the strange power of Obreht's storytelling."  -  Yael Goldstein Love, San Francisco Chronicle

Winner of the 2011 Women's Prize For Fiction

Tea Obreht is the author of The Tiger's Wife, winner of the Orange Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Inland. She was born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City.