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The Abolition of Species
Die Abschaffung der Arten
Dietmar Dath (born 1970)
Translated by Samuel P. Willcocks
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The Abolition of Species
DoppelHouse Press · United States · 2018 · Paperback · 392 pages
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The Abolition of Species
Seagull Books · United Kingdom · April 2013 · Hardcover · 382 pages
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The age we know has long since gone to sleep. Where Europe once was, only three huge cities remain, and the world belongs to the animals, who have built a civilisation meant to do better than humans did. When a great danger looms, their ruler, the lion Cyrus Golden, sends the wolf Dmitri out as an envoy to find an ally. The journey takes him to the edge of his world, among creatures who change their shapes at will, and towards an understanding of why humankind met the fate it did.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 551 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2008 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9783518420218 (original)
9780857420329 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)
9780998777092 (DoppelHouse Press, United States)
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