Tea Obreht’s Orange Prize-winning 2011 novel 'The Tiger’s Wife'.
As I was reading Tea Obreht’s Orange Prize-winning 2011 novel The Tiger’s Wife, I began thinking of its description as a “magic realist” book.
Now, I’m generally sceptical of genre groupings for books, because it so often seems like they’re made up for the purposes of marketing rather than as a true reflection of the book itself. And one of the divisions that really irks me, is the differentiation between “fantasy” and “magic realism”.
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