The tiger's wife

Description:

Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.

subjects: Family secrets,  Grandparent and child,  Fiction,  Women physicians,  Orphanages,  Grief,  Secrets,  Memory,  Grandparent-grandchild relationship,  Secrecy,  Superstition,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-03-27,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, family life, general,  Women physicians, fiction,  Grandparents, fiction,  Balkan peninsula, fiction