The Tiger's Wife

The Tiger's WifeNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal O: The Oprah Magazine The Economist Vogue Slate Chicago Tribune The Seattle Times Dayton Daily News Publishers Weekly Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered SELECTED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Entertainment Weekly The Christian Science Monitor The Kansas City Star Library Journal

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - O: The Oprah Magazine - The Economist - Vogue - Slate - Chicago Tribune - The Seattle Times - Dayton Daily News - Publishers Weekly - Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered

SELECTED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times - Entertainment Weekly - The Christian Science Monitor - The Kansas City Star - Library Journal

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with "the deathless man." But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her--the legend of the tiger's wife.

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Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 11/01/2011
ISBN: 9780385343848
Pages: 353
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citations: People Weekly 12/05/2011 pg. 59
New York Times Book Review 12/04/2011 pg. 72
Entertainment Weekly 12/23/2011 pg. 111

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 144667 / Tiger's Wife
Reading Level: 7.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19