Animals: Eight Studies for Experts (German List) - Hardcover

Menasse, Eva

 
9781803092621: Animals: Eight Studies for Experts (German List)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1803092629 ISBN 13: 9781803092621
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A collection of unique, profound, and witty stories that relate animals’ peculiarities to human attitudes.

Animals is a collection of short stories in which each story takes a peculiar item about animals that appears, like fables, to shine a spotlight on different aspects of human behavior—like caterpillars digging their own graves, sharks in need of artificial respiration, ducks that keep an eye out for hungry predators even in their sleep. It is a treat to watch Eva Menasse spin these observations into scenes of people battling their everyday anxieties and doubts. An old tyrant realizes that he is unable to prevent his wife’s worsening dementia from erasing his own past as it erases hers. A mother who tries to protect a Muslim child from hostile accusations finds that her own boundaries between good and evil begin to blur. A woman realizes how starkly her father’s traumatic past has shaped her quirky habits and deepest fears. Combining biting wit, mystery, and melancholy, these tales are the work of a masterful storyteller.

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Eva Menasse is the prizewinning author of short stories, essays, and three novels, including Vienna, which was published in Anthea Bell’s English translation in 2006. Simon Pare is a translator from French and German living near Zurich.
 

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Verlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803092629
ISBN 13 
9781803092621
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
303
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