Téa Obreht
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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.
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2019
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with 'a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West' (Entertainment Weekly).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time ' The Washington Post ' Entertainment Weekly ' Esquire ' Real Simple ' Good Housekeeping ' Town & Country ' The New York Public Library ' Kirkus Reviews ' Library Journal ' BookPageIn the lawless, drought-ridden...
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When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...