The Tiger's Wife
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011
'Beautifully executed, haunting and lyrical' Independent
When a tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina, his nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle Book.
Years later, the granddaughter of that boy, Natalia, receives word of his death far from home and surrounded in mystery. Remembering fragments of the stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for 'the deathless man' a vagabond who was said to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man, would go on such a far-fetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Watch a video of author Téa Obreht discussing The Tiger's Wife
06/07/2011
