The tiger's wife, if anything is an ambitious book. Did it hit the target? Almost. 
Obreht's prose is beautiful, she manages to draw you in, lull you with fairy tales, hypnotise you almost, while she discusses the greatest fear and mystery of all humans. Death. 
Sad, heartbreaking, unbelievably cruel at points, quite funny and sweet at others. A lovely book, with two faults. The last two pages shouldn't be there and it could have been a bit shorter. 
A worthy winner of the, then orange prize, now women's prize for fiction, if you ask me.