Author: Tea Obreht
Translator: Wang Eun Cheol
Publisher: Hyundae Munhak
448 pages | 223*152mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea
Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction
writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her
as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.
In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young
doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the
time she and her lifelong friend Zora begin to inoculate the children
there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere
around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell
her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the
surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.
But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own:
the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s
recent death. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to
meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle settlement none of
their family had ever heard of and died there alone. A famed physician,
her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he
left home becomes a riddle Natalia is compelled to unravel.
Grief struck and searching for clues to her grandfather’s final state of
mind, she turns to the stories he told her when she was a child. On
their weeklytrips to the zoo he would read to her from a worn copy of
Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which he carried with him everywhere;
later, he told her stories of his own encounters over many years with
“the deathless man,” a vagabond who claimed to be immortal and appeared
never to age. But the most extraordinary story of all is the one her
grandfather never told her, the one Natalia must discover for herself.
One winter during the Second World War, his childhood village was
snowbound, cut off even from the encroaching German invaders but haunted
by another, fierce presence: a tiger who comes ever closer under cover
of darkness. “These stories,” Natalia comes to understand, “run like
secret rivers through all the other stories” of her grandfather’s life.
And it is ultimately within these rich, luminous narratives that she
will find the answer she is looking for.
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