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THE TIGER'S WIFE: A NOVEL
by Obreht, Tea
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0385343833
- ISBN 13
- 9780385343831
- Seller
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CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Random House, 2011. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Random House, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 347 pages. Rare Tea Obreht collectible set. A pristine copy of "The Tiger's Wife" First Hardcover Edition in its First Printing and First-State DJ (NO "National Book Award Finalist" Imprint) with a fine copy of the New York Times Book Review March 13, 2011 Issue, which showcases Tea Obreht's novel, both signed by her. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Tea Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife". Published to lavish praise from fellow writers. Which appears in the First Edition/First State DJ: "The most thrilling literary discovery in years" (Colum McCann). "A novel of surpassing beauty, exquisitely wrought and magical. A towering new talent" (T. Coraghessan Boyle). "A marvel of beauty and imagination" (Ann Patchett). The unusual title refers to the unlikely yet convincing friendship between a tiger which escapes from a Croatian zoo at the height of the German bombardment in 1941 and a deaf-mute woman. The story of "the tiger's wife", as the deaf-mute becomes known, forms one of the main narrative strands that hold the novel seamlessly together. An absolute "must-have" title for Tea Obreht collectors. This copy is very prominently, elaborately, and beautifully signed and inscribed ("lined") in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "The deathless man, Tea Obreht". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The inscription is a direct quote from the novel. This comes with a copy of the New York Times Book Review March 13, 2011 Issue, which highlights - and lauds - Tea Obreht's novel on the cover, also very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen in front by the author. This title is a contemporary classic. This is the only such signed and inscribed copy (with signed NYT Book Review Issue) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing/First-State DJ (NO "National Book Award Finalist Imprint) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the best signed set we have ever seen. A rare signed set thus. Tea Obreht was selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. Winner of the Orange Prize in 2011 for "The Tiger's Wife". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine set. ISBN 0385343833.
Synopsis
Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and T he Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in New York.
Reviews
On Jul 20 2014, CloggieDownunder said:
The Tiger’s Wife is the first novel by Serbian-born American author, Tea Obrecht, and is the winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. Young doctor, Natalia Stefanovic is on an assignment with her life-long friend Zora to innoculate the children of a remote Balkan village orphanage when she learns of her grandfather’s death. Her grandmother believes he was on his way to meet Natalia, is distraught that he died alone in a town none of them recognises, and that his belongings are missing. As she tries to come to terms with the loss of a man who loomed large in her life, Natalia is distracted from her medical duties by memories of her grandfather and also by the strange digging activities in a nearby vineyard. Obrecht employs three narrative strands: Natalia relates what happens on her vaccination excursion; her grandfather, a well-respected doctor, tells of his three encounters with a deathless man; and Natalia chronicles the events of a certain winter in World War Two, when the village her grandfather grew up in was visited by a tiger. In each of the narrations, secondary characters are elegantly given backstories so that a collection of short stories is seamlessly woven into the whole. Obrecht’s characters are interesting and authentic and her descriptive prose is wonderfully evocative: “Pigeons, clustered thick enough to be visible from the hill, shuffled like cowled women up and down the street..” Against a backdrop of seemingly ever-present war, Obrecht explores superstitions and customs, secrets and lies, fears and rituals, history and folklore, myths and mysteries, love and revenge, and of course, death. This moving and thought-provoking novel is an amazing debut. Readers will look forward to more from Obrecht.
On Jan 16 2014, a reader said:
This novel is set in an unidentified Balkan country that is recovering from an internal war which has split the country. The heroine, Natalia, is a young doctor who has been heavily influenced throughout her life by her grandfather, who is also a doctor. When her grandfather dies, Natalia is thrown into a fit of remembrance of her many experiences with her grandfather. Half of these memories are fables of a contemporary sort; e.g., he has told her a story of a man who cannot die. His fascination with tigers was passed on to her in a love of The Jungle Book and Shere Kahn. After her grandfather’s death, Natalia finds out that an even more fabulous story, involving a tiger, has happened to him in the past, the story of the Tiger’s Wife. This book is an interesting mix of contemporary science and history with the village legends of the Balkan countryside.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Modern Rare
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23513
- Title
- THE TIGER'S WIFE: A NOVEL
- Author
- Obreht, Tea
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0385343833
- ISBN 13
- 9780385343831
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 347
- LCCN
- 2010009612
- Dewey
- 813/.6
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