Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for
Fiction
The Tiger's
Wife
EAN:978-0297859024
Format: Paperback
Publisher:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published in:
United Kingdom, 03
March 2011
The Orange Prize winning debut from a
truly extraordinary talent. 'Having sifted through
everything I have heard about the tiger and his
wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in
April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the
German bombs started falling over the city and did
not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that
they were bombs...' A tiger escapes from the local
zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards,
to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His
nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified
thrall. But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of
magic - Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The
Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that
boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages after
another war has devastated the Balkans. On this
journey, she receives word of her beloved
grandfather's death, far from their home, in
circumstances shrouded in mystery. From fragments of
stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia
realises he may have died searching for 'the
deathless man', a vagabond who was said to be
immortal. Struggling to understand why a man of
science would undertake such a quest, she stumbles
upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of
The Jungle Book, and then to the extraordinary story
of the tiger's wife.
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