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Téa Obreht

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Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, was published by Random House in March 2011. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in Ithaca, New York.


Average rating: 3.37 · 48,076 ratings · 7,078 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Tiger's Wife
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 47,244 ratings — published 2011 — 48 editions
The Best American Short Sto...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 832 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
The Tiger's Wife: Behind th...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
American Odysseys: Writings...
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions

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February 2011, Téa Obreht
"In The Tiger's Wife, a young doctor investigates her grandfather's mysterious death. Obreht shares an image of the Balkan region that inspired her prose." ...More

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“When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling—when it is about your name, the places to which your blood is anchored, the attachment of your name to some landmark or event—there is nothing but hate, and the long, slow progression of people who feed on it and are fed it, meticulously, by the ones who come before them. Then the fight is endless, and comes in waves and waves, but always retains its capacity to surprise those who hope against it.”
Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

“When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?”
Téa Obreht

“Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?”
Téa Obreht, Tigers Wife

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