Follow podcast failed. Unfollow podcast failed. Stream or download thousands of included titles. Narrated by: Robin Sachs,Susan Duerden. No default payment method selected.
Add payment method. Switch payment method. We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method. Pay using card ending in. Taxes where applicable. Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again. The OverDrive Read format of this ebook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser.
Learn more here. You've reached the maximum number of titles you can currently recommend for purchase. Your session has expired. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages.
If you're still having trouble, follow these steps to sign in. Add a library card to your account to borrow titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list.
Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, The Tigers Wife pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The audiobook was fine, but not great. I wasn't crazy about Susan Duerden's style, though having a man take over the parts of the story told by the grandfather was a nice touch. This novel wraps several stories within stories, all which focus on the narrator's recently deceased Grandfather.
These stories are all compelling each in their own right. They just don't seem to have conclusions worthy of the beauty and complexity of the tale. The premise of this novel is wonderful. The Author does a rewarding job weaving these stories together in an interesting and compelling style.
That is, until we get to the conclusion. I felt the last chapter and the final minutes were rushed, perhaps finished to meet some deadline. The conclusion left me feeling unfulfilled, It is a shame such an elegant work of fiction was plucked from the vine just before it was completely ripe. It's a tasty experience, but falls just a few millimeters short of reaching it's full potential.
Another point of contention is that the author sometimes gets too devoted to painting a landscape or setting the scene for us. Occasionally, I found myself wishing she would just get on with the story. I will concede, though, she is very artful with these overdeveloped descriptions. In true Audible form, the Narrators are exquisite. I don't regret listening to "The Tiger's Wife" I just feel slightly unfulfilled by the conclusion. I had heard many good things about this story but it definitely fell short.
While the story was compelling - Balkan country, young doctor finding information about her grandfather's past - it didn't hold me. The inexperience of the author came out in her choice of what to include and what to leave out -- too much was included in places that just didn't need explaining. It is also a very dark story and at the end, I was left feeling empty - that there were things undone and unsaid.
The narrator is okay but gave me a sense that she is sitting on the edge of her seat in the way she pushes forward with the words. That didn't add to the despondency that I felt throughout the novel.
I finished this book but was really glad when it was over and I didn't have to read it anymore. There are some really great moments in this book, but it never really comes together as a whole.
Obreht spins interesting stories, but they should have been stand alone tales, not woven together into a singular narrative. There's no question in my mind that Tea Obreht has talent, but The Tiger's Wife felt like it was written by an, as of yet, immature author who hasn't quite come into her own. I am interested in seeing what Obreht will write next. The narrator was adequate, but her voice often went into a sing-song cadence and, after the first hour or two of listening to the book, I grew tired of it.
Like new books from many other new or new-ish writers, this one was not what I was expecting, and the audible blurb is misleading. I was expecting a story about one person and her experiences on location in a war-torn area, and what this is is a narrative told mostly by the grandfather, with a lot of fantasy requiring way too much suspension of disbelief.
For me, anyway. I should listen more carefully to what advance blurbs have to say and then run the other way. I think that publishers and book review publications want to applaud originality at the expense of other factors like characterization, detail nuance, approachable story, and so on. The book is very original, in format and in setting, two stars for that, but it's all simply non-relatable for me.
0コメント