"The Tiger's Wife" Summarized & Analyzed

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Major part of the novel is set in the present and half a century before the present time. The novel tells the story of a relationship between a young doctor, Natalia, and her grandfather, who tells her different stories. Most of the stories are about the Deathless Man who meets the grandfather on three occasions in different places. There is also the story of a deaf and mute girl from the grandfather’s childhood village. She makes a tiger her friend. The tiger happens to have escaped from a zoo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jul 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370985357

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The Tiger's Wife Summarized & Analyzed

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Chapter One: Introduction

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht was first published in 2011. It is the author’s debut novel. The book was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in England, and by Random House in the United States.

The story of the novel is set in an unnamed country in the Balkans. The book is inspired by the personal relationships and emotions from the author’s own life. However, it is not an autobiographical book. There is no doubt that several events in the story have been inspired by the real life situations.

Obreht has an advance degree in the arts, unlike the medicine degree of the character in the novel. The author’s grandfather was an aviation engineer, unlike the doctor grandfather in the novel.

The book had begun as a short story about a tiger, and a deaf and mute circus performer and a young boy. The author has deliberately left many aspects of the narrative anonymous, trying to concentrate more on the themes of family, war, and the difficulty of really understanding others. There is no time and place unity in the novel and the events are scattered in a broader time period.

Major part of the novel is set in the present and half a century before the present time. The novel tells the story of a relationship between a young doctor, Natalia, and her grandfather, who tells her different stories.

Most of the stories are about the Deathless Man who meets the grandfather on three occasions in different places. There is also the story of a deaf and mute girl from the grandfather’s childhood village. She makes a tiger her friend. The tiger happens to have escaped from a zoo.

Most of the novel was written when the author was at Cornell. On being asked to briefly describe her novel, once the author said that The Tiger’s Wife is a family saga set in a fictional country of the Balkans.

There is a female narrator and the nook describes her relationship with her grandfather, who happens to be a doctor. It is also a saga about doctors and their relationships to death during the wars in the Balkans.

When the book was first published, most of the views were highly published, and most of the critics and scholars admired the skill of the author as a fiction writer. The major newspapers and magazines in both England and the United States published their reviews, mostly favourable.

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