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Only the Animals

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Animal perspectives on human conflicts.

Recommended for animal lovers who enjoy thought-provoking tales. Each chapter is a poignant story told from the perspective of a different animal caught up in human conflicts throughout the last century. These unique and creative narratives offer a glimpse of humanity from an outsider's perspective, making readers contemplate our actions and view the world with new eyes.

  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year (2015)
  • The Stella Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
  • Queensland Literary Awards for Short Story Collection (2014)
  • Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2014)
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Only the Animals

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ISBN: 9781782397175
Authors: Ceridwen Dovey
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Date of Publication: 2015-08-18
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: War
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 1975 readers)

Description

Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human.The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath.Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by this bright young writer. An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal, violent worst and our creative, imaginative best, it asks us to find our way back to empathy not only for animals, but for other people, and to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction.
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Animal perspectives on human conflicts.

Recommended for animal lovers who enjoy thought-provoking tales. Each chapter is a poignant story told from the perspective of a different animal caught up in human conflicts throughout the last century. These unique and creative narratives offer a glimpse of humanity from an outsider's perspective, making readers contemplate our actions and view the world with new eyes.

  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year (2015)
  • The Stella Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
  • Queensland Literary Awards for Short Story Collection (2014)
  • Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.