The Animals in That Country: winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Product Details:
| Category: | Books |
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| ISBN: | 191285452X |
| Title: | The Animals in That Country: winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award The Fast Free Shipping |
| Author: | McKay, Laura Jean |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Book Binding: | Hardback |
| Prizes: | Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award 2021 (UK) Winner of Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Fiction 2021 (Australia) Winner of Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Literature 2021 (Australia) Winner of ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year 2021 (Australia) Winner of Aurealis Awards Best Science Fiction Novel 2020 (Australia) Short-listed for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2020 (Australia) Short-listed for The Stella Prize 2021 (Australia) Short-listed for ALS Gold Medal 2021 (Australia) Short-listed for The Kitchies' Golden Tentacle Award 2021 (UK) Short-listed for Prix Maya Award for Best Animal Novel 2026 (France) |
| Book Condition: | VERYGOOD |
| SKU: | GOR010719448 |
Item description
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.
Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. Shes 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 Jeans 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.
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