Book set in Siberia – Tiger by Polly Clark
Siberian set novel with Tigers at its heart
Tiger by Polly Clark – A novel set between England and Siberia. This is a world in which the author draws you into a wild and raw world where tigers roam. A world where the animal world and the human one collide. It’s unlike any other novel you will read this year.
And there’s a beautiful animal inspired cover to draw you in before you even turn the page….
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Setting: The vast raw landscape of the Siberian Taiga
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Set across two continents, Tiger is set in London and Siberia which transports the reader into a wild environment where tigers rule.
Starting off in England, in a fictional zoo, we meet Frieda who is a primatologist, working with the animals she so loves. A violent attack changes everything and shatters her world. It’s a signal to change her life, move away and start something new. So, she finds a new role in a zoo far away from where she lived before. This is going to again change her life, but in more positive ways and in a way she could never have foreseen. She is there to take care of a tiger cub from Siberia.A huge vast area of land where animals rule and where “humans live on the edge of wilderness”
Meanwhile in the Siberian Taiga, the most remote part of Russia, Tomas, a conservationist there is worried that the animal world is in extreme danger. This is the raw, wild land where the tigers roam but the king tiger has been killed by poachers and so the whole natural order has been shattered. In his place, a tigress now patrols the landscape as her own.
The stories of Frieda, Tomas, and the tigers weave together in a story that brings threads of so many emotions and themes together. Marginalisation, motherhood, hierarchy and environment to name but four. This is a story of how worlds can be broken then repaired, brought back together and formed into something even stronger than before. The stories of animal and human are very similar and this is what fascinated me about the novel. The writing is exquisite and draws you in to a world where the writer talks about animals and humans so you feel and sympathise with both. There’s some deft plotting here and some even more deft and impressive research. This novel takes you places you never expect to go in one novel and it was a fascinating journey.
I think the location of Siberia really made the novel extra special. This is not somewhere we know much about. I am not familiar with the landscape or the world of tigers, but the author took me there and I was astounded, fascinated and enthralled in equal measure.
How similar we are when you really think about it. How we think and react about home, love, loneliness, the threat of losing our home, our young, how to survive….all explored here. Comparing and melting the two worlds of animals and humans together was unexpected and totally captivating.
A stunning novel and so many layers to this Siberian set wonder. The location is the character which brings it all together on a backdrop of impressive scope.
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