Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising villagers, the body of her grandfather turns up in a hospital in the middle of nowhere. She and her family have no idea why.Recalling stories he told her as a child, she becomes convinced that he went in search of the Deathless Man, a mythical figure, that her grandfather claimed to have met a number of times in his life.In her quest to find out how her grandfather, a man of hard fact and science, could turn to this fantasy, she discovers something particular about his childhood: a tiger escaped from a zoo during World War II bombings and wandered deep into the woods, settling just outside his peasant village. It terrorized the town, the devil incarnate to everyone, except for her grandfather and 'the tiger's wife'...
Tea Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia and was raised in Belgrade. In 1992, her family moved to Cyprus, eventually emigrating to the US in 1997. She was the youngest author on The New Yorker's Top 20 Writers under 40 List and one of the youngest authors ever to be extracted in the magazine. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
Read Jo Case's interview with Téa Obreht about The Tiger's Wife.
National Book Awards 2011: Fiction Finalists
The Tiger's Wife
$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more →
The Buddha In The Attic
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.
The Buddha in the At... Buy or find out more →
Salvage The Bones: A Novel
$35.00 – Hardcover book /
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker largel... Buy or find out more →
The Sojourn
$21.95 – Paperback book / Bellevue Literary Press
Krivak follows his revelatory memoir (A Long Retreat) with this lush, accomplished novel.
After Jozef Vinich's mother dies while saving his life as an infant, Jozef and his widowed father relocate from a small Colorado m... Buy or find out more →
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
$28.50 – Paperback book /
A finely tuned collection by writer's writer Pearlman combines the best of previous collections (How to Fall; etc.) with austere, polished new work.
Pearlman's characters for the most part are stiff-upper-lipped Northeas... Buy or find out more →
