![]() ![]() His story is intercut with that of Nora Lark, an Arizona farm wife in the early 1890s whose husband has disappeared in search of water. He’s sought by a dogged lawman and flees across the (not yet) United States of the mid-19th century. ![]() He falls in with a rough crowd and becomes a thief, then a murderer. ![]() Lurie Mattie is an orphan forced to fend for himself in dangerous times – the wild west. Six years later, her second novel appears at first a wholly different proposition. Obreht left Serbia as a child when the Yugoslav wars broke out and moved to the US as a young woman, but her debut still came firmly out of the tradition of European magic-realism, incorporating folk tales and ghost stories into a narrative that was both fantastical and moving, an intergenerational excavation of the ground where the personal and political meet. Its framing device was the dialogue between Natalia, a young doctor, and her storytelling grandfather, as they chewed over the history of an unnamed Balkan state. T éa Obreht’s wildly successful first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, was a tale of exuberant surrealist allegory. ![]()
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