E-audiobook
The tiger's wife [electronic resource] : [a novel] / T�ea Obreht.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307877031 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307877035 (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 sound file : digital.
- Edition: Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 11:22:20. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Susan Duerden. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 163454 KB; MP3 file size: 320196 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Women physicians > Fiction. Orphanages > Fiction. Grandparent and child > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Balkan Peninsula > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2011 June
Matching the resonant voices of Susan Duerden and Robin Sachs with the rich prose of Obreht was a stroke of genius. The stories in this audiobook weave and unravel many threads--threads connecting Natalia (performed with grace by Duerden) and her grandfather (rumbled beautifully by Sachs) to one another and to their perpetually war-torn Balkan home. Duerden's Natalia is an earnest doctor who cares for her country's orphans as she comes to terms with her grandfather's recent death. The loss of this loving constant in her life haunts her in the form of her grandfather's stories--vivid, often bizarre tales best told by Sachs, whose raspy tone goes far to endear his character to any listener. Meandering, enchanting, tragic, and hopeful, THE TIGER'S WIFE makes for superb listening. L.B.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2011 May #1
Obreht, named last year as one of the New Yorker's 20 novelists to watch under the age of 40, makes her debut with this magical-realist evocation of a country in wartime. The author, herself an immigrant to the U.S. from the former Yugoslavia, transforms a young woman's memories of her grandfather's stories into a kaleidoscopic portrait of her former country's traumatic history. The book is read in tag-team fashion by Susan Duerden and Robin Sachs. Sachs sounds gravelly, grouchy, and well-pickled in various alcoholic libations; Duerden is British, plummy, arch, and delicate in her intonations, reverberating into near-Cockney working-class tone. The unlikely combination is surprisingly pleasing, nicely matching the contrast between Obreht's elaborate storytelling conceit and its grubby, homely details. A Random hardcover. (Mar.)
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