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Title: The Tiger Claw

Author: Shauna Singh Baldwin

Narrator: Yolande Bavan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Shauna Singh Baldwin first heard of the mysterious story of Noor Inayat Khan (codename Madeleine) at The Safe House, an espionage-themed restaurant in Milwaukee. A former Dutch spy told her of the brave and beautiful Indo-American woman who left her family in London, England, to become a spy in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. The story immediately intrigued Baldwin, inspiring her to travel to Europe, seek out the places where Noor lived, interview the people who knew her, and discover more about the enigmatic woman. The Giller Prize finalist The Tiger Claw - Baldwins follow-up novel to her award-winning What the Body Remembers - was born from the silences, conflicting stories and significant gaps she discovered along the way.

As the novel begins, were thrown into a bleak German prison cell with Noor, where she is shackled hand and foot and freezing from the winters cold. It is December 1943, the turning point in the war raging in Europe. Noors captor, Herr Vogel, allows her onionskin paper on which he directs her to write childrens stories. She does so, but also secretly writes letters to someone she addresses as "ma petite", the spirit of the child she had conceived with Armand Rivkin, a French Jewish musician and the love of her life. Although she must keep the letters hidden from her captor, it is through these words to her unborn child, alternating with a thrilling third-person narrative, that we learn Noors courageous and heartbreaking story. Noors mother is an American from Boston who married a Sufi musician and teacher from India. Growing up in France, Noor is extremely close with her liberal Muslim father, but when he dies, Noor's conservative uncle Tajuddin and her brother Kabir govern the family. Uncle Tajuddin and Kabir disapprove of Noor's love for Armand, and as the men of the family in 1930s France, they have the legal right to stop her engagement.

Members Reviews:

Second Favorite Baldwin Novel

If you like this book, you'll LOVE Baldwin's earlier novel, "What the Body Remembers".

The Tiger Claw has the author's characteristic emotional sensitivity and poise, and is a very satisfying read. If it were the first Baldwin novel I was reading, I would probably give it more than 3 stars. However, her earlier work - What the Body Remembers is just SO much better, that I couldn't help feeling somewhat disappointed with this book.

I did not like it at all

I did not like it at all, very boring to many details to tell the story it makes you loose the secuence of the story .

Profound WWII Thriller - A Real Page Turner

Often reading authors unknown to me, I'll go through several books before one this good comes along. It kept me up late for several days. History seamlessly blends with fiction as Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian Muslim woman who grew up in France, finds herself back in German-occupied France, spying for Britain. If that's not complicated enough, she's in love with Armand, a Jewish native of France who's been imprisoned by the Nazis. As Noor precariously sends her radio messages to London and meets a network of other British agents, she desparately tries to get closer to Armand. The book offers page after page of breath-holding tension as the Nazi tentacles slowly close around the British network - is there a traitor feeding their names to the Gestapo? Apart from the excitement, other themes emerge.