Natalia, a young doctor on a medical mission to an orphanage in the Balkans, ponders the mystery of her beloved grandfather's recent death. She finds the answers she seeks in the story of an abused deaf-mute woman in the village of his childhood who formed a bond with a tiger that escaped from the zoo following the German bombardment in 1941.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: women physicians, fiction, orphanages, grandparent and child, family secrets, balkan peninsula, fiction