The Tiger's Wife

The Tiger’s Wife is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Téa Obreht

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

RANDOM HOUSE is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Portions of this book appeared previously in The New Yorker in different form.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Obreht, Téa.

The tiger’s wife: a novel / Téa Obreht.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-679-60436-5

1. Women physicians—Fiction. 2. Orphanages—Fiction.

3. Grandparent and child—Fiction. 4. Family secrets—Fiction.

5. Balkan Peninsula—Fiction. I. Title

PS3615.B73T54 2011

813′.6—dc22 2010009612

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Jacket design: Anna Bauer

Jacket illustration: Mary Evans Picture Library

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