It showcases all of Téa Obreht's talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely-and unforgettably-her own. Ta Obreht’s wildly successful first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, was a tale of exuberant surrealist allegory.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.

Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. Inland (2019) is a literary Western by American author Téa Obreht. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife returns with a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American. The way in which Nora's and Lurie's stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. Inland by Ta Obreht : 9780812982756 : Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife returns with a bracingly epic and imaginatively. 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.

There are times you will saunter to the next step in the story or face great leaps of motion and noise that take you by. 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. Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. Inland is a historical novel that brings to mind an excellent fairy tale. Ta Obreht’s debut novel, The Tiger's Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was an international bestseller. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home. 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.

In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide.

Inland by Téa Obreht