#59
Title: The Tiger’s Wife
Author: Tea Obreht
Read by: Susan Duerden and Robin Sachs
Read by: Susan Duerden and Robin Sachs
Genre: Literature
Category: Fiction
Rating: B
Published: 2011
Dates: 8/25/16
– 9/12/16
This is an amazing fairy tale full
of enchantment and symbolism, told by Tea Obreht, story-teller
extraordinaire. From the back cover – “In a Balkan country
mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission
of mercy at an orphanage. By the time
she begins to inoculate the children, she feels age-old secrets gathering
everywhere around her. But Natalia is
also confronting a private mystery: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding
her grandfather’s recent death. He set
off for a settlement none of their family had ever heard of and died there
alone. A famed physician, her
grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he left home becomes a riddle Natalia is
compelled to unravel.”
The stories he told her when she was
a child come tumbling back to her. The Tiger, the Bear, the Deathless Man, her grandfather’s book, The Jungle Book –
all are so compelling. While I don’t
claim to understand much about what these symbols represent just hearing them read
is enough.
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