The man who spoke Snakish
Kivirähk, Andrus2017
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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, this novel is a fiercely imaginative allegory about a boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change.
Main title:
The man who spoke Snakish / Andrus Kivirähk ; translated by Christopher Moseley.
Author:
Kivirähk, Andrus, authorMoseley, Christopher, translator
Imprint:
London : Grove Press UK, 2017.
Collation:
442 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Estonian.Originally published: 2016.This translation originally published: New York: Black Cat, 2015.
ISBN:
9781611855272 (pbk)
Dewey class:
894.54533
LC class:
PH666.21.I77
Local class:
FT Pbk
Language:
EnglishEstonian
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BRN:
1929049