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A carregar... The Tiger's Wife: A Novel (original 2011; edição 2011)por Tea Obreht
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This imaginative tale — rather several tales woven in and out — was an unexpected discovery that I imagine I will read again and again and glean new nuggets. Rich with folkloric stories told by a doctor grandfather to his doctor granddaughter, the main narrator, Natalia Stefanovic, and unflinching in its telling of the Balkan States’ violent history, this skillful work of allegory and fable is set in a fictional city there. The villains and outcasts who populate this novel have rich backstories, told concisely, that illuminate the people they have become. I decided to listen to the audiobook and the excellent dramatic narration by two different readers — Susan Duerden and Robin Sachs — was captivating. Tea Obrecht’s wonderful writing deserves all the praise it got when this debut novel was published in 2011. ( ) "The Tiger's Wife" left me with mixed feelings. Much of it is fascinating and beautiful, and without a doubt, Obreht is a talented writer and gifted story teller. That latter talent though, introduced a major weakness in this book--she has simply too many tales to fit comfortably into this one novel. Though they all intersect, the side-stories distract from the two main narratives, which are the grandfather's childhood with the tiger and the tiger's wife and the granddaughter's present day effort to cope with his death as she works as a doctor in a war-torn region. Even these two primary stories are somewhat in tension, competing for our interest; ultimately the grandfather's tale wins out. Some logic and motivation are missing from the telling of the events in the granddaughter's life. Her story is much less completely thought out, and therefore less interesting. Whenever we left the grandfather's childhood village, I felt disappointed and somewhat impatient--the detours did not add much to his strong core story. Obreht's editor should have encouraged her to take all of these other pieces out to either publish them as a set of related short stories or to use them as the beginnings of novels in their own right. That would have left the story of the grandfather and the tiger's wife, which would have needed hardly anything else to stand on its own as a powerful, moving piece. A final thought about this book, which relates only to the subject matter of the Balkan conflict and not the author's handling of it. Throughout my reading of this book, I often thought of China Mieville's amazing book [b:The City & the City|4703581|The City & the City|China Miéville|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320475957s/4703581.jpg|4767909], set in a fictional area of conflict between two literally overlapping city states. Reading Obreht's book made Mieville's seem that much more amazing. Here's what I wrote in 2011 about this read: "Good read - critically aclaimed first novel by born-in-Bosnian writer. She spins a good tale re the narrator's grandfather's life bookended by his two stories . . . The Tiger's Wife and the Deathless Man. Who was that deathless man, by the way, and interesting to see the tiger as an analogy for death. " Pertence à Série da EditoraTem um guia de estudo para estudantesPrémiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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