The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Random House Publishing Group on 03-08-2011
Téa Obreht,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Random House Publishing Group on 03-08-2011
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780385343831
Publish date: 08-03-2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
I quite enjoyed this book. Though after all the praise I have read that was heaped on it like frosting on a 27 layer cake, I expected to be blown away by it. I was not.That in no way implies that this is anything less than a very skillfully constructed first novel by someone with a true talent for s...
I agree with a previous reviewers comments:"In The Tiger’s Wife, sadly, the parts are greater than the whole. The three story strands never come together to form one beautiful, and emotionally moving, story. In the end, they remain three disparate story strands. They leave the reader with the sense ...
I couldn’t wait to read The Tiger’s Wife. I’d read a thousand rave reviews on a thousand blogs and I knew it was going to be the best book of the year. I knew that Tea Obreht had been invited to speak in Houston this coming spring and I knew that was because her book was the best book of the year. I...
This is the first book I have finished on my sparkly new Kindle. My thoughts on the book? It was beautifully written and profound, but I didn't quite get the overall story.Obreht's writing is breathtakingly beautiful. I read through this novel like water flows through a creek bed after a storm. It's...
Book at Bedtime R4http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zsdgc/Book_at_Bedtime_The_Tigers_Wife_Episode_1/blurberoonies - Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious circ...
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