The Tiger's Wife

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.

Set in

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  Belgrade · Serbia

  Real-world anchor for unnamed Balkan city setting
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  Balkans · Serbia

  A fictionalized post-war Balkan country, clearly rooted in the former Yugoslavia — Obreht's homeland
  ★ primary