What is the author's style in The Tiger's Wife: A Novel by Tea Obreht?

The most evident, and in many ways the most engaging, element of the entire book is its use of language. Mostly poetic, deeply detailed, and powerfully evocative, the book's language brings a wide range of characters, situations, periods and places, belief systems and feelings to vivid life. The word tapestry woven by the writer is multi-textured and complex, colorful and dynamic, with the reader never really knowing what narrative direction the author is going to take next. But here the book runs into difficulties, and its strength becomes a weakness.