Tigers wife book club

Because of this, gailes collection of this book becomes an act of. The life and career of the worlds greatest golfer fell apart with the swing of a club and it wasnt even his swing. A young doctor investigates the circumstances of her grandfathers mysterious death, recounts what she discovered while researching his childhood in a small town, and passes on stories he himself told her about his encounters, when an adult, with a mysterious deathless man. The tiger s wife takes place in an unnamed balkan country closest in character to the former yugoslavia, where obreht was born. The tigers wife by tea obreht book club discussion. The tiger s wife is legendary, a story made up of smaller stories that, when taken together, becomes a complicated account of war intertwined with local village lore. How did the book club discussion go with the tigers. The tigers wife book club kit tacoma public library. During her journey, natalia recounts memories of her grandfather. Why didnt the townsman know or care where the tiger s wife was buried. Bantam doubleday dell publishing group inc publication country. Its a book about memory and myth and their intersection, time and mortality and healing. The tigers wife is the debut novel of serbianamerican writer tea obreht. The tigers wife is an outstanding ambitious book of depth and meaning that draws links between a troubled aftermath in a wartorn region with the backdrop of superstition and myths.

This is the story of a girl in cambodia during the period of the khmer rouge and the killing fields. Did the apothecary deliberately poison the tiger s wife with the drink he sent with her grandfather, and if so, why. And i just want to note here that this trite metaphor is well below the. Natalia, a young medical student, is on her way to an orphanage. We already know that our very own o of o has one of the best book clubs, like, ever. As natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles.

Book clubs are about the reading and the talking, sure, but we all know that snacks play a vital role in any successful book club. There is a theme adopted throughout the book that opposing positions are regularly confronted, such as modern technology and medicine, with fables and folklore. The jungle book tied natalias grandfather to the tiger and his wife, and so also to darisas death. The tigers wife tea obreht, 2011 random house 352 pp. 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. Set in an unnamed balkan country shortly after the end of civil war, the tiger s wife is, on the surface, a tale of one womans search for the truth behind her beloved grandfathers death, but the implications of this search are fundamental to the way we make sense of life. All the arts are about communication if one is to make grand summarizing statements and to have two of the arts communicating with each other, prose and music, like birds in a tree in bushwick, is a brilliant concept that the bushwick book club has invented and continues to practice with great joy and. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this the tiger s wife study guide and get instant access to the following summary.

Books similar to the tiger s wife the tiger s wife. What power do the stories we tell about ourselves have to shape our identity and help us understand our lives. The tigers wife tells the story of a young doctor, natalia, living in wartorn eastern europe. As natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she. The tiger s wife national book award finalist new york times bestseller. Check out our facebook group page, asheville book club. Upon discovering that her physician grandfather has mysteriously died in a remote clinic she sets out to unravel the details of his death. Natalia says that the key to her grandfathers life and death lies between two stories. In the shadow of the banyan is officially fiction, but ratner admits in the authors note that it is basically her storymaking it fiction just gave her freedom with some of the details.

It feels weird to think that a 25yearold novelist could have all that much to lose in a. Because of this, gailes collection of this book becomes an act of forgiveness and redemption. As longhidden secrets come to light, tea obrehts the tiger s wife random house deftly walks the line between the realistic and the fantastical. The tiger in this novel, the tiger is presented as both a mythical and real figure. Tea obrehts the tigers wife comes freighted with more critical anticipation than any debut novel in recent memorythat sort of unearned, preemptive prestige spurs both impossible expectations and skeptical readings a burden that would doom most first novels yet the tigers wife, in its solemn beauty and unerring execution, fully justifies the accolades that ms. A first novel with a compassionate, mystical take on the real price of war. The multitextured narrative of this complex novel interweaves three related plots. Heres what i like about tea obrehts debut novel, the tigers wife. The next meeting of the all good books group will be held at 7 pm on thursday, july 12, 2012 at the leawood pioneer library 4700 town center drive, leawood, ks in the meeting room. The tiger symbol contains many layers of meaning in this novel. The huffington post selected the tigers wife for our now discontinued book club in 2011, and with good reason. The tiger s wife is an outstanding ambitious book of depth and meaning that draws links between a troubled aftermath in a wartorn region with the backdrop of superstition and myths.

The tigers wife is, on the surface, a tale of one womans search for the truth behind her beloved grandfathers death, but the implications of this search are fundamental to the way we make sense of life and death. The tigers wife by tea obreht book club discussion questions. After all, her grandfather always carried a copy of kiplings jungle book in his breast pocket. The tiger s wife moving on to our fiction selection, we are now at the tiger s wife i still have yet to draw up a blog with the official details, but as our reading schedule says, the final discussion of the tiger s wife will be friday february 21 right here.

Obrehts delicate unfolding of natalias grandfathers past presents a multidimensional view of a man natalia believed she knew. Revisiting the tigers wife and the balkan wars the new york. He told her the tiger had a wife a deaf, mute woman who was accused of killing her very human husband, luka. It is a heavy book, but the writing is beautiful and the story is important. We will be discussing the tiger s wife by tea obreht. Her grandfather had a special love for jungle animals especially the tiger because of his obsession with jungle book. Shere khan from the jungle book and a real tiger who escaped from a zoo. But another celeb whose shown herself to have excellent taste is reese witherspoon. How did the book club discussion go with the tiger.

As longhidden secrets come to light, tea obrehts the tigers wife random house deftly walks the. Natalia has returned to her roots in balkan country to lend a hand at an orphanage, and investigate her grandfathers sudden, mysterious death. We will meet on the last monday instead of tuesday and venue will change to highland brewing company. Our summer book club continues today with celestes first pick for july. The tigers wife discussion questions all good books blog. Obreht herself came to the table with a lot of baggagea place at the new yorkers 20under40 table with a number of stories, but without a published book to her name. Reese witherspoons book club list all 36 book picks. In a balkan country mending from war, natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfathers recent death. The only thing better than books is food and books. By the time the tiger s wife came out early this year in hardcover, the hum of anticipation was deafening. Its about love, about family and war and inhumanity and suffering and finally, hope. I headed into reading the tigers wife with a weekend ahead of me. The tiger s wife is set in an unnamed balkan country, spanning the mid 20thcentury to the early 21st century. I prepare, i think, i explain who scoffed at superstition throughout most of his life.

The tiger s wife is a frisky tiger cub chasing its tail it covers a lot of ground, growls a lot, and never quite gets there, but we have fun along the way. If this is impossible due to covid complications, we will have a zoom call meeting instead. Tea obreht burst onto the literary scene this year with her first novel, the tiger s wife. In 2017, the actress launched her very own book club along with her media company, hello sunshine. Obrehts portrayal of a southeast europe corrupted by war yet inspired by legends and fairy tales is both touching and deeply important.

He used to tell natalia about the first tiger he ever saw, as a child in his small village. The group will discuss the tiger s wife by tea obreht. The night tiger woods was exposed as a serial cheater. And since her inaugural novel pickeleanor oliphant is completely finemany of the a. Natalias grandfather was a brilliant doctor and practical man his motto. The language is pictorially vivid, the writing the kind that picks you up from the written page until words become greater and the reader envisions herself present, seeing events. I was so honored that the bushwick book club made music in response to my writing.