Location(s): Balkans
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Various
The book is based in the Balkans just after the recent conflicts, the main characters are Natalie and her recently deceased grandfather whose fairytales form a major part of the book.
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At times, Obreht writes with terrific beauty and always with a rich imagination and sense of love both to the Balkan region and in the relationship between Natalia and her grandfather, a good doctor...
Lead Review (The Tiger’s Wife)
3,75* This is a creative story, imbued with magical realism, folklore and fantastical elements. It also encompasses the changing nature of the area in which it is set (the Balkans). The author is from Belgrade, so it is quite...
Thoughts about death in a time of war
The name of the narrator of this story is Natalia Stefanović; but the piece of the former Yugoslavia that she lives in is not named nor is her home “the City”, she is vague about political facts, most characters...
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