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Laura Jean McKay - Animals in That Country, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Animals in That Country

winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award

Av Laura Jean McKay

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WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAROut on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park.Then, a strange pandemic begins sweeping the country, its chief symptom that its victims begin to understand the language of animals. Many infected people lose their minds, including Jean’s son, Lee.When he takes off with Kimberly, Jean follows, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun. As they travel, they discover a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-07-08
  • Mått: 190 x 20 x 120 mm
  • Vikt: 255 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Scribe Publications
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Scribe Publications
  • ISBN: 9781913348854
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award 2021 (UK)
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Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country — winner of the prestigious 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 2021. The French translation, Les Animaux de ce pays, won the 2025 Prix Gargantua. Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia, and her latest collection is Gunflower. She was the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow in Cork, Ireland, and teaches Creative Writing at Massey University. Laura is based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.

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‘A fierce debut novel … Her writing about people is filthy, fresh, and funny; this is prose on high alert, hackles up and teeth bared in every sentence. The novel becomes both a stirring attempt to inhabit other consciousnesses and a wry demonstration of the limits of our own language and empathy. ’

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