6/12/2023 0 Comments Only the animals by ceridwen doveyIt has elements of strangeness and greatness, like Kafka. 'Only the Animalsis mesmerizing and exhilarating, funny and moving. An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal worst and our creative best, Only the Animalsasks us to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. 'The most original, surprising and inspired book I read this year.' Stephen Romei, Weekend Australian Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animalsis a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers.
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