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The tiger's wife : a novel

Obreht, Téa. (Author).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 9780385343848 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 353 pages ; 21 cm
    print
  • Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011.

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General Note:
Includes a reader's guide.
Subject: Women physicians -- Fiction
Orphanages -- Fiction
Grandparent and child -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Balkan Peninsula -- Fiction

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Summary: 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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