![]() The main character Jean is not particularly likeable - rough and feisty from the school of hardknocks. Words - but not always immediately easy to understand. So that the world for these humans is an excruciating buzzing of communication. In this book, ‘zooflu’ is rampaging through the country and one of the main consequences is that infected humans gain an understanding of the communication of nonhuman animals - at first mammals, then birds, then insects. What if a virus could give humans the ability to communicate with animals? This book was published at the time of the Covid pandemic, but that was just coincidence. Margaret Atwood, ‘The animals in that country’ from Selected Poems 19. At the end of the poem, the animals ‘have the faces of no-one’. In Margaret Atwood’s poem the animals ‘have the faces of people’ and the teeth in the bull who is slaughtered ‘are human’. The title pays homage to a poem by Margaret Atwood. It is certainly a book of speculative fiction. ![]() ![]() This debut novel has won many awards, including the Victorian Prize for Literature and the 2021 Arthur C. ![]()
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