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THE MAN WHO SPOKE SNAKISH
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| By: |
Andrus Kivirahk, Christopher Moseley (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1611855276 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781611855272 |
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| Publisher: |
GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 July, 2017 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
A runaway bestseller in Europe where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is an extraordinary coming-of-age story, mixing magical realism, reinvented national myth and satire. |
| Synopsis: |
Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they're bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe.Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty - people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with bare-bottomed primates and their love of ancient traditions, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves, and speak to snakes.Told with moving and satirical prose, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a fiercely imaginative allegory about a boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
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