Night of the Animals - Tapa dura

Broun, Bill

3,01

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ISBN 10: 0062400797 ISBN 13: 9780062400796

Editorial: Harper Collins Publ. USA, 2016

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Night of The Animals is the most beautiful, strange new novel I have read in years, and its obese, mentally ill, elderly protagonist is among the most engaging of heroes. The existence of this book in the present moment is a wonderment. --Mary Gaitskill"

Bill Broun s Night of the Animals is troubling in all the right ways: a vividly imagined dystopia and an ecological parable that seems all too possible and all too real. It s compulsively readable-a novel that earns your close attention, from beginning to end. --Jess Row, author of Your Face in Mine"

An Orwellian debut explodes ancient lore and contemporary technology to create a prescient, terrifying dystopia... highly immersive narrative. The language of the novel crackles with energy The worlds religions-paganism, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Yoruba-fuse together in a luminous supernatural force... An impressive, richly imagined, deeply urgent story --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

Floating aimlessly, in and out of Cuthbert s questionable rationale and disengaged touch with reality, Broun follows the adventures of one man who is both tormented and encouraged by ghosts of his past, and of a mysterious ideology surrounding the spirit of the imprisoned animals that seeks to be free. --The Hoya (Georgetown University)"

Through precise and eloquent prose and a hint of political satire, Broun creates a near future filled with bioelectric technology and characters with patois as diverse as their desires. Broun s novel is strange, witty, and engrossing, skipping through madness and into the realm of myth. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

Imaginative, fast-paced, thoughtful, and awash in laser-like imagery, debut novelist Broun s phantasmagorical fable vibrantly blends myth and satire to paint both a cautionary warning about present behavior and a futuristic vision of what the unbridled abuse of nature might unveil. --Booklist (starred review)"

It s an Orwellian, mystical affair with a peppering of environmental morality, but more than anything it s a wild, weird ride. --Masculine Times"

In prose that employs a variety of British dialects, Broun composes a story that s engaging not only for its strange plot, but for its inventive use of language, too. --Huffington Post, 22 Summer Books You Won't Want to Miss"

A sci-fi fantasy in which the tale of Noah s Ark is recast in modern-day London. --Omaha.com, Five Books You Should Read in July"

Night of the Animals is by turns visionary, ironic, satirical and deeply remorseful. The felled woodlands, the erased species, a new Great Extinction--all happen within one long lifetime. It s a rich addition to the literature of lament, viewed with sympathy and longing. --Wall Street Journal"

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Named a Best Book of 2016 by Slate

"A story as wildly moving and singular as an animal’s eyes in the dark.” -- The New York Times

In this imaginative debut, the tale of Noah’s Ark is brilliantly recast as a story of fate and family, set in a near-future London.

Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo. When he was a young boy, Cuthbert’s grandmother had told him he inherited a magical ability to communicate with the animal world—a gift she called the Wonderments. Ever since his older brother’s death in childhood, Cuthbert has heard voices. These maddening whispers must be the Wonderments, he believes, and recently they have promised to reunite him with his lost brother and bring about the coming of a Lord of Animals . . . if he fulfills this curious request.

Cuthbert flickers in and out of awareness throughout his desperate pursuit. But his grand plan is not the only thing that threatens to disturb the collective unease of the city. Around him is greater turmoil, as the rest of the world anxiously anticipates the rise of a suicide cult set on destroying the world’s animals along with themselves.

Meanwhile, Cuthbert doggedly roams the zoo, cutting open the enclosures, while pressing the animals for information about his brother. Just as this unlikely yet loveable hero begins to release the animals, the cult’s members flood the city’s streets. Has Cuthbert succeeded in harnessing the power of the Wonderments, or has he only added to the chaos—and sealed these innocent animals’ fates?

Night of the Animals is an enchanting and inventive tale that explores the boundaries of reality, the ghosts of love and trauma, and the power of redemption.

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