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Animals

Tiere für Fortgeschrittene

Eva Menasse (born 1970)

Translated by Simon Pare

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In English

• Animals

  Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2024 · Hardcover · 312 pages

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Caterpillars that dig their own graves, ducks that watch for predators even in their sleep, sheep that shed their own wool: each of these eight stories starts from a strange news item about animals and is then entirely about humans. An old tyrant who resists all change cannot stop his wife's dementia from erasing his own past. A committed mother who defends a Muslim child against hostility finds the lines between good and bad blurring. A woman realises how much her father's fate has shaped her quirks and her deepest fears. And a group of hand-picked artists and scientists rehearses a grotesque revolution in the southern heat.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

316 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9783462047912 (original)

9781803092621 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

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