Tracy's Tiger

William Saroyan (1908-1981)

He was born in Fresno (California, USA) in an Armenian family that emigrated from Bitlis. Self-education, reading American and world literature, inheriting elements of the spiritual culture, traditions, history of the native people, and the national originality of the Armenian environment played a big role in the development of the writer.

In the first decade of his literary life, Saroyan wrote several hundred short stories, most of which were summarized in more than ten collections. Saroyan introduced fresh social-psychological themes closely related to the reality of the place and time, modern-sounding humanitarian moral motifs, new forms of storytelling, tones full of lyricism and humor, naturalness and truth, colorful images and characters, especially in the genre of short story and novel. Among the famous works of the writer are: "My heart is in the mountains", "Hey, who is there", "My name is Aram"...

The author's play "The hours of your life" won the Pulitzer

"Tracy's Tiger" is one of Saroyan's famous novels, which is the love odyssey of Thomas Tracy and Laura Luthi, filled with Saroyan worldliness and the breath of metaphor. It is about the "tiger" living in each of us: dreams, love, victory and strength.