- Family secrets, Grandparent and child, Fiction, Women physicians
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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Grave, earnest, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Téa Obreht
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 361
- Publisher
- Random House, Windsor, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385343831
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