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Téa Obreht

Biography

Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht’s debut novel, THE TIGER'S WIFE, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was an international bestseller. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine and Zoetrope: All-Story, among many others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now lives in New York with her husband and teaches at Hunter College.

Téa Obreht

Books by Téa Obreht

by Téa Obreht - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Lost and freezing on the shore, Nina stumbles upon Sunrise --- a town of the Old West that is strangely well maintained, but seemingly abandoned. A place that holds the missing link to a ghost story 100 years in the making. Sand Daw’s golden boy Coll is putting the finishing touches on the town’s annual historical reenactment. But when an author comes to him with questions, it threatens to upend everything he thought he knew about the city. Town founder, gunslinger and legendary pulp hero Anton Vargas returns to Sunrise and quickly takes charge of a group searching for a missing boy. But who really is Vargas? What does he know about the boy’s disappearance? These three strangers are separated by time. But Sunrise’s many secrets are like gunpowder: quiet, contained, until they encounter a spark.

by Téa Obreht - Fiction

After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena, Silvia finds a person willing to give glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland. Enchanted by Ena’s stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities and becomes obsessed with Bezi Duras, the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Silvia’s mission to unravel the truth about this woman’s life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything.

by Téa Obreht - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western

In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life --- her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home. Meanwhile, Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. How Lurie’s death-defying trek at last intersects with Nora’s plight is the surprise and suspense of INLAND.

by Téa Obreht - Fiction

In a Balkan country, Natalia, a young doctor, is attempting to piece together the mysterious circumstances around her beloved grandfather’s recent death through the extraordinary stories and legends from his past.