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The Animals In That Country

Author(s): Laura Jean McKay

Fiction and NZ Fiction

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. 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.  

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Winner of the 2021 Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. Longlisted Miles Franklin 2021 Winner Vic Premier's Award 2021 2021 Stella Prize Shortlist Shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year 2021

This book is both an utter surprise and a rude shock, given our present COVID-19 climate. While the power to "talk with the animals" proves to be a poisoned chalice for many, the author's vision of a viral outbreak of staggering transmissibility and the speed of social collapse is near-prescient. -- Adam

General Fields

  • : 9781925849530
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : 0.376
  • : January 2020
  • : ---length:- '23.4'width:- '15.3'units:- Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Laura Jean McKay
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 304
  • : FL