Obreht, Téa

The tiger's wife : a novel / Téa Obreht - 1st ed - New York : Random House , c2011. - 337 p. ; 22 cm.

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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Women physicians----Fiction
Orphanages----Fiction
Grandparent and child----Fiction
Family secrets----Fiction


Balkan Peninsula----Fiction

PS3615.B73 / T54 2011

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