The tiger's wife / by Téa Obreht.

By:

Obreht, Téa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011.Description: 335 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0297859013
0297859021
0753827409
9780297859017
9780297859024
9780753827406

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Fiction.

DDC classification:

813.6

LOC classification:

PS3615.B73 T54 2011

Other classification:

HU 9801
I712.45

Awards:

Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 Winner.

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Executive Office - 2nd Floor General Collection	813.6 OB.T 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	0003800

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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.

Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 Winner.

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