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The Tiger's Wife

By: Téa Obreht
Narrated by: Robin Sachs, Susan Duerden
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Winner of the Orange Prize.

A tiger escapes from a zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from 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.

©2011 Tea Obreht (P)2011 Orion Publishing Group Limited

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not my cup of tea

only finished listen for the sake of it. didn't like it because it described dark history of dark figures and other unsavoury descriptions of violence etc. sometimes harsh language. not a very uplifting book... The magical stories were ok, but nothing very special. didn't like the voice of narrator, she spoke too fast.

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