The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

• All Critics: 28
• Positive: 19
• Negative: 9

• Booklover Book Reviews | 24 Jul 2011

  I highly recommend The Tiger’s Wife for lovers of literature and look forward to seeing what Obreht will share with us in the future.

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• From Left to Write | 21 Mar 2012

  I was immediately drawn in by Obreht’s lyrical writing style, her thought-provoking passages, her rich portrayal of the landscape that surrounded her interesting characters, and the way she wove several stories together.

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• The Washington Post | 8 Mar 2011

  Tea Obreht's swirling first novel, "The Tiger's Wife," draws us beneath the clotted tragedies in the Balkans to deliver the kind of truth that histories can't touch.

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• The Guardian | 11 Mar 2011

  Obreht has prodigious talent for storytelling and imagery

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• New York Observer | 9 Mar 2011

  The Tiger’s Wife reads like it belongs in the running for a Newberry rather than a Pulitzer.

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• Hungry like the Woolf | 24 Apr 2012

  Obreht... demonstrates admirable skill, but never delivers the sort of depth her premise suggests. This book provides pleasant diversion, but no real weight.

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• Los Angeles Times | 27 Mar 2011

  beautiful writing, but in the end, "The Tiger's Wife" might have benefited from a little less art and a little more life.

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• Oprah.com

  In Obreht's expert hands, the novel's mythology, while rooted in a foreign world, comes to be somehow familiar, like the dark fairy tales of our own youth, the kind that spooked us into reading them again and again.

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• Chasing Empty Pavements | 22 Mar 2012

  by the end of the novel I'm not really sure if anything important ever did happen... underwhelmed by this novel after all the hype and my own expectations.

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• The Telegraph | 8 Jun 2011

  If she had managed to render her interesting topic with an individual and striking voice, she would have produced something lasting as well as prize-winning.

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• The New York Times | 11 Mar 2011

  Filled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand, “The Tiger’s Wife” is all the more remarkable for being the product not of observation but of imagination.

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• Oregon Live | 19 Mar 2011

  a remarkable first novel: unusual in content, wise beyond its author's years and completely engrossing.

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• Her Circle Magazine | 25 Jan 2012

  an exceptional work of art as Obreht interweaves Balkan history and folklore into the most riveting tale told.

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• Kirkus Reviews | 15 Jan 2011

  Obreht’s remarkable story showcases a young talent with a bright future. A compassionate, mystical take on the real price of war.

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• Edinburgh Book Review | 17 Feb 2012

  the The Tiger’s Wife’s biggest weakness – the lack of a truly gripping overarching plot.

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• S. Krishna's Books | 11 Apr 2011

  Tea Obreht’s writing is beautiful and clear... the reader must linger over each [word] in order to truly absorb the novel’s impact. Obreht writes with a confidence usually reserved for the most seasoned of writers.

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• Examiner | 21 Feb 2012

  With the ambiguity surrounding certain parts of the book, each reader can walk away with a different impression of each character

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• Jules' Book Reviews | 31 Dec 2011

  something was missing for me in this book... the biggest issue was the characters, I didn't enjoy them much and couldn't connect to them

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• The Rumpus | 14 Mar 2011

  an elaborate, haunting work that deserves to be ranked at least alongside other great debuts

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• SamDowning.com | 1 Oct 2011

  Like a real fairytale, the precise details are almost irrelevant. It’s the sense they arouse that stays with you.

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• Dallas News | 18 Mar 2011

  a remarkable debut novel. Tea Obreht uses stories, and stories within stories... and does so with with a mature hand, predicating certainty and strength in her grasp of materials we usually expect from a master far beyond Obreht’s years.

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• The Independent | 25 Mar 2011

  Beautifully executed, haunting and lyrical, The Tiger's Wife is an ambitious novel that succeeds on all counts. It's a book you will want to read again and again.

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• Whirl Books | 24 Mar 2011

  I felt like I was missing a lot by not understanding what I assumed were many references--cultural, folkloric, religious, and otherwise. So I stumbled around the maze and emerged dazed, and ultimately a little disappointed.

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• AV Club | 31 Mar 2011

  The Tiger’s Wife lives up to its hype

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• Stonington-MysticPatch / Off the Shelf | 5 Feb 2012

  The truly remarkable achievement of "The Tiger's Wife" is its complexity... I would highly recommend "The Tiger's Wife" for book clubs that enjoy a challenging story

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• National Post | 4 Mar 2011

  Like any good sorcerer, the spell Obreht casts is strong enough to circumvent flaws, and to invite the reader to hope she’ll continue honing her literary magic with even greater depth and care.

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• NPR | 8 Mar 2011

  her attention to detail in creating a believable world — in spite of its magical elements — is the work of a mature storyteller.

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• BookRack | 17 Dec 2011

  It is complex, multi layered and has fable and reality intricately woven. The writing style is mature, seasoned and polished. It allures you to delve deeper in the story and visualize the scenes in your mind.

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