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The tiger's wife

by Téa Obreht

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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.

Family secretsGrandparent and childFictionWomen physiciansOrphanagesGriefSecretsMemoryGrandparent-grandchild relationshipSecrecySuperstitionnyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-03-27