Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of 'The Tiger's Wife'
Clip: 4/1/2011 | 8m 52s
Jeffrey Brown talks to Tea Obreht, author of the novel, "The Tiger's Wife."
The horrors of the Balkan War and strange encounters with a "deathless man"; the love between a woman and her dying grandfather; the magical story of a tiger terrorizing a European village. This mix of realism and fantasy is all part of "The Tiger's Wife," the new, first novel by Tea Obreht, a 25-year-old writer who was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States at age 12.
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Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of 'The Tiger's Wife'
Clip: 4/1/2011 | 8m 52s
The horrors of the Balkan War and strange encounters with a "deathless man"; the love between a woman and her dying grandfather; the magical story of a tiger terrorizing a European village. This mix of realism and fantasy is all part of "The Tiger's Wife," the new, first novel by Tea Obreht, a 25-year-old writer who was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States at age 12.
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