The Man Who Spoke Snakish Paperback / softback
by Andrus Kivirahk
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781611855272
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781611855272