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Téa Obreht

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Born

in Belgrade, Serbia

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http://teaobreht.com

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Sheila Burnford, T.C. Boyle, Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez ...more

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November 2011

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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. ...more

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	Animal Farm by George Orwell, Ann Patchett (Contributor ), Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 3,499,772 ratings — published 1945 — 291 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tiger's Wife 3.41 avg rating — 97,250 ratings — published 2011 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inland 3.44 avg rating — 12,101 ratings — published 2019 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2010 by Richard Russo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Steve Almond (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 1,550 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron Project by The New York Times (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Edwidge Danticat 3.59 avg rating — 1,237 ratings — published 2020 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author), Kurt Andersen (Goodreads Author), Stefan Merrill Block (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane, Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Deborah Treisman (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 679 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anonymous Sex by Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Contributor)(Editor), Robert Olen Butler (Goodreads Author) 2.95 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Water Djinn in 40 Short Stories Anthology 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tiger's Wife (Greek Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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