The Man Who Spoke Snakish

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The Man Who Spoke Snakish

Editorial: grove_press_uk

ISBN: 978-16-1185-527-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9781611855272

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2017-07-06

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Man Who Spoke Snakish

Editorial: grove_press_uk

ISBN: 978-16-1185-539-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9781611855395

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2016-09-01

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Man Who Spoke Snakish

Andrus Kivirähk

Primera publicación: 2016-09-01

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.