Téa Obreht
Goodreads Author
Born
in Belgrade, Serbia
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
November 2011
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Animal Farm
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1945
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The Tiger's Wife
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2011
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Inland
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2019
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The Best American Short Stories 2010
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2010
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The Decameron Project
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24 editions
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2020
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Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
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2012
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Gallatin Canyon
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10 editions
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2006
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Anonymous Sex
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11 editions
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2022
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Blue Water Djinn in 40 Short Stories Anthology
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The Tiger's Wife (Greek Edition)
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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...
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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.”
― The Tiger's Wife
― 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?”
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