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The tiger's wife [sound recording] : [a novel] / Téa Obreht.

Obreht, Téa. (Author). Duerden, Susan. (Added Author). Sachs, Robin, 1951- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307877000
  • ISBN: 0307877000
  • Physical Description: 9 sound discs (11.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact disc.
Subtitle from container.
Unabridged.
Duration: 11:30:00.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Susan Duerden and Robin Sachs.
Summary, etc.:
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.
Subject: Women physicians > Fiction.
Orphanages > Fiction.
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Balkan Peninsula > Fiction.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

Holds

0 current holds with 1 total copy.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Main CD Fiction Obreht 9 discs (Text) 31307019347196 Audiobooks Available -

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The Tiger's Wife
The Tiger's Wife
by Obreht, Téa; Duerden, Susan (Read by); Sachs, Robin (Read by)
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Author Notes

The Tiger's Wife

Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1985. She immigrated with her family to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Times, and The Guardian as well as being anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her first novel, The Tiger's Wife, was published in 2011 and won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography)


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