Obreht, Téa.

The tiger's wife : a novel / Téa Obreht. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2011. - 337 p. ; 22 cm.

Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.

ISBN: 9780385343831 0385343833

LCCN: 2010009612

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women physicians--Fiction.
Orphanages--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Balkan Peninsula--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3615.B73 / T54 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6