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Unterwegs spricht niemand, alles spricht.
Harttrinkend, schlecht und allergisch gegen Bullshit, Jean ist keine übliche Oma. Abgesehen von ihrer geliebten Enkelin Kimberly war sie noch nie gut darin, mit anderen Menschen auszukommen. Stattdessen umgibt sie sich mit Tieren und arbeitet als Führer in einem Outback-Wildpark. Und obwohl Jean mit all ihren Gebühren spricht, hat sie ein besonderes Faible für einen jungen Dingo namens Sue.
Als störende Nachricht von einer Pandemie kommt, die das Land fegt, erkennt Jean, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Grippe ist: Ihr Hauptsymptom ist, dass seine Opfer beginnen, die Sprache der Tiere zu verstehen – zuerst Säugetiere, dann Vögel und Insekten. Mit fortschreitender Grippe werden die unaufhaltsamen Stimmen überwältigend, und viele Menschen beginnen ihren Verstand zu verlieren, darunter Jeans infizierter Sohn Lee. Als er mit Kimberly auf dem Weg nach Süden abhebt, spürt Jean den Zug, ihrer Verwandten zu folgen.
Auf ihrem Weg befinden sie sich mit Sue der Dingo-Reitschrotflinte in einer starken, seltsamen Welt, in der die Tierapokalypse Menschen nur weiter von anderen Arten isoliert hat. Mutig, aufregend und völlig originell fragt The Animals in That Country, was passieren würde, wenn wir - zum Guten oder Schlechten - endlich verstanden haben, was Tiere sagten.
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Secondhand, Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Laura Jean McKayFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 304WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu- its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean's infected son, Lee. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. Bold, exhilarating, and wholly original, The Animals in That Country asks what would happen, for better or worse, if we finally understood what animals were saying. 'This is a game-changing, life-changing novel, the kind that comes along right when you need it, and compels you to listen to its terrifying poetry. Compulsively readable and yet also pushing the boundaries of what is possible in terms of language and narrative, this is a brilliant and disturbing book that will make you rethink everything you thought you understood about non-human animal sentience and agency. I don't think any reader can ever forget a voice like Sue the dingo's - wise and obscene in equal measure. A triumph.' -Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only The Animals 'A timely dystopian novel in which a dangerous flu sweeps across Australia, giving those infected the power to speak with animals, with dark, disturbing results.' -Maxine Beneba Clarke 'A wildly inventive dystopian adventure . Both a hell of a ride and a revealing thought experiment about our place in the natural world.' -Dan Kois, Slate. Secondhand, Paperback. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781925849530-SECONDHAND
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Paperback. Laura Jean McKay, Scribe Publications. WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2021 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu- its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean's infected son, Lee. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. Bold, exhilarating, and wholly original, The Animals in That Country asks what would happen, for better or worse, if we finally understood what animals were saying.'This is a game-changing, life-changing novel, the kind that comes along right when you need it, and compels you to listen to its terrifying poetry. Compulsively readable and yet also pushing the boundaries of what is possible in terms of language and narrative, this is a brilliant and disturbing book that will make you rethink everything you thought you understood about non-human animal sentience and agency. I don't think any reader can ever forget a voice like Sue the dingo's - wise and obscene in equal measure. A triumph.'-Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only The Animals'A timely dystopian novel in which a dangerous flu sweeps across Australia, giving those infected the power to speak with animals, with dark, disturbing results.'-Maxine Beneba Clarke'A wildly inventive dystopian adventure . Both a hell of a ride and a revealing thought experiment about our place in the natural world.'-Dan Kois, SlateLaura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe, 2020) - winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, and the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year, and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc., 2013). She was awarded the NZSA Waitangi Day Literary Honours in 2022. Paperback. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781925849530-RETAIL
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