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Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.
In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.
But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle 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.
Grief struck and searching for clues to her grandfather’s final state of mind, she turns to the stories he told her when she was a child. On their weeklytrips to the zoo he would read to her from a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which he carried with him everywhere; later, he told her stories of his own encounters over many years with “the deathless man,” a vagabond who claimed to be immortal and appeared never to age. But the most extraordinary story of all is the one her grandfather never told her, the one Natalia must discover for herself. One winter during the Second World War, his childhood village was snowbound, cut off even from the encroaching German invaders but haunted by another, fierce presence: a tiger who comes ever closer under cover of darkness. “These stories,” Natalia comes to understand, “run like secret rivers through all the other stories” of her grandfather’s life. And it is ultimately within these rich, luminous narratives that she will find the answer she is looking for.
Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, will be published by Random House on March 8 2011. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in Ithaca, New York.
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评分刚开始有点难读 可是到后边却欲罢不能
评分我觉得略无聊。。。。
评分a rare germinal fine mind in literature.
评分英语非母语的作家用英文写起书来真是不可小觑啊~
蒂亚·奥布莱特这种作者应该是每个编辑的梦想吧。 只是总觉得这本书写得太短了,太简单了。本来或许应是鸿篇巨著,但作者是如此年轻,没有耐心,也没有必要把它写成鸿篇巨著。于是我们看到了几个嵌套的漂亮故事,却觉得有太多的东西失落在文本背后。外祖父、“我”、佐拉,这几...
评分神秘的老虎,在战火中出现、隐匿,引出家族传奇和爱情童话。 一部雄心夺魄、大胆写就的奇书,全文阐释了对情爱、传奇与生死的思索,结构丰满、意象优美、震撼人心。 让我不禁感叹:马尔克斯,后继有人!
评分 评分 评分我喜欢这本书,不仅因为它讲了好故事,还因为它又让我想起了我爷。 小的时候有一首歌,“穿起了大头皮鞋,想起了我的爷爷……”,我爷就有大头皮鞋,走路咚咚咚。可惜现在大头皮鞋不流行了,我也穿不着,所以没能像唱歌的那人那样总是想起爷。记得这歌还是在我家的VCD功放机上...
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