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As the book's inner flap tell us, Tea Obreht is "the youngest of THE NEW YORKER's twenty best American fiction writers under forty." I can see why, since this book is very well-written and compelling in its themes of love and loss, framed by the background of a dissolving Yugoslavia (even though that country is never actually named). I usually am drawn to books for the characters--those are the ones for which I reserve my five stars. This book reads more like a fable, where the characters are weaving an intricate pattern of past and present, superstition and reality. The two threads of the pattern which most intrigued me are those of the title character, an abused deaf-mute woman, and the story of the deathless man, told to the first person narrator by her grandfather. At times I got somewhat lost in the sections about the war, since historical background is not part of the unfolding of the story. In fact, one of the most telling sections shows an awareness that the darkness of the human heart--whether in individuals or nations--is universal and eternal: "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 attachement 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..." If any one character DOES stand out, it is the grandfather of Natalia, the narrator, who has told her the two stories of the tiger's wife and the deathless man. As Natalia, now a physician like her grandfather had been, searches for answers to his mysterious death, she unravels a web of magical realism that is very powerful.

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I really enjoyed this book. I read it very quickly. I lived in the Seattle area for a summer in college, and our family just came home from Seattle. I can't wait to get the next one in the series.