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The Tiger`s Wife

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Call no.
: 813.6/OBR
Author
: Téa Obreht
Contributor
: Puspa Diana Bt. Jawi
Summary
The Tiger`s Wife is the debut novel of Serbian-American author Téa Obreht. It was published in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British imprint of Orion Books, and by Random House in America. The Tiger`s Wife is set in an unnamed Balkan country, spanning the mid 20th-century to the early 21st century. It about a young doctor`s relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her, primarily about the `deathless man` who meets him several times in different places and never changes, and a deaf-mute girl from his childhood village who befriends a tiger that has escaped from a zoo.