Téa Obreht's novel Sunrise is set across three interwoven timelines that explore an abandoned mining town and the themes of courage, cowardice and how history is recorded. Obreht's novels contain conflicting narratives, treacherous landscapes and speculative fiction.
Her award-winning debut in 2010, The Tiger's Wife, examined themes of death, miracles and marginality amid a fictional Balkan war. Her fourth novel returns to a western frontier haunted by ghosts and besieged by outlaws, a territory that Obreht first explored in her second book, Inland.
In August 2024, Nina Terzic has just jumped – or been pushed – from a Cessna that crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. She manages to swim to shore. There is no sign of her boyfriend Ben, who was on the plane with her, and her phone – though miraculously intact – has no signal. Nina, a graduate student, was on vacation from her full-time job as a nanny in New York.
