by Téa Obreht · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253164364
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«La femme du tigre» is the novel by Téa Obreht, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (429 pages, in French).
In a Balkan country recovering from a century of wars, young doctor Natalia vaccinates children at an orphanage amid superstitions attributing epidemics to curses. Between memories of her grandfather and local legends emerges the story of the tiger's wife, a tale he took to the grave and she tries to reconstruct.
The cover of this edition bears the badges of the Orange Prize 2011 and the Prix des Lecteurs Sélection 2013.
For readers of literary fiction interested in stories where memory, war, and folk legends intertwine.
Téa Obreht is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.
