The Tiger's Wife. Die Tigerfrau, englische Ausgabe - Winner of the Orange Prize 2011
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Language: English Brand New Book. 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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- '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. Taschenbuch.

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KURZE BESCHREIBUNG/ANMERKUNGEN: The Tiger's Wife is the story of a young doctor, Natalia, who struggles to make sense of her grandfather's death, in a Balkan country still scarred by war. But more than that, it is a story about stories, where a tattered copy of The Jungle Book will lead Natalia to the tale of the Deathless Man and the extraordinary story of the Tiger's Wife. Steeped in local legend, it is a haunting, transcendental, enthralling read. Have you got your orders in? AUSFÜHRLICHERE BESCHREIBUNG: '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. BIOGRAFIE Obreht, Téa (HR): Téa Obreht, geboren 1985 in Belgrad, lebt seit ihrem zwölften Lebensjahr in den USA. Dort veröffentlichte sie erste Erzählungen, u. A. im "New Yorker", in "Harper's" und der "New York Times". Ihr Debütroman "Die Tigerfrau" (2011), der in den USA und England zu einem sensationellen Überraschungserfolg wurde, erscheint in mehr als dreißig Sprachen. Im Sommer 2011 erhielt Téa Obreht den Orange Prize for Fiction. Taschenbuch / Paperback.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, WORLDWIDE BOOKS [52580588], County Durham, A., United Kingdom.
An EX LIBRARY copy in VERY GOOD condition.May have some library identification marks/stamps. Daily dispatch from UK warehouse. This book is in VERY GOOD overall condition, showing only light signs of previous ownership.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, TextbooksScotland [56129064], Ringwood, HAMPS, United Kingdom.