Great Believers

The Tiger's Wife is a novel by Téa Obreht that tells the story of Yale Tishman, a development director for an art gallery in Chicago in 1985, and Fiona, his estranged daughter, who disappeared into a cult thirty years later. Both characters struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 528 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Winner of the Carnegie Medal
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Awards
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award
Barbara Gittings Literature Award
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award


Stirring, spellbinding, and full of life
Téa Obreht, New York Times
bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife


In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet, as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying, and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.


Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.

Weight: 406g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780708899120