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Marc Koralnik |
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INTERVIEWS WITH AN APE
Powerfully affecting tale of humans' destruction of nature, told by an extraordinary central character.
Einstein is a young silverback mountain gorilla with a remarkable secret. He can sign. Kidnapped by poachers as an infant, his family brutally murdered, he is sold first to a circus, then a fairground, and, finally, to a zoo in a city about to be torn apart by a violent and merciless civil war. At the zoo he forms what is, at first, a reluctant friendship with the zoo's resident veterinarian, but which eventually becomes one of mutual respect, trust and affection. As the civil war finally comes to an end, and a new crisis begins, theirs is an alliance which will, in time, change many lives around the globe.
INTERVIEWS WITH AN APE is a book about all of us. Our pasts and our presents and the way we see the world.
It's about despair and the triumph of hope, about our infinite capacities to endure and to love and how we survive through the tales we tell. It is a story of beginnings and endings, destruction and restoration. A story of homecoming told through a remarkable gorilla called Einstein.
Felice Fallon's debut is a work of imaginative daring, written with a direct simplicity, yet deep insight. The novel's many voices will linger long in the memory and the heart.
Century publish in elegant hardback on 22 July 2021 and Felice will be talking to Mariella Frostrup on the debut slot on Times Radio, with more review and feature news to come. You might think of it as a SOPHIE'S WORLD for the animal kingdom, with a gorilla as the key character; a novel in the grand animal protagonist tradition of Kafka's A REPORT TO THE ACADEMY and WATERSHIP DOWN, but also for those who were moved by films like OKJA, BLACKFISH or MY OCTOPUS TEACHER.
About the author
Felice Fallon was born in Los Angeles, California and worked in advertising in New York before moving to London to marry and raise a family. In her mid-fifties she read history, politics and philosophy at Birkbeck. She has written screenplays, but Interviews with an Ape is her first novel.
INTERVIEWS WITH AN APE is a book about all of us. Our pasts and our presents and the way we see the world.
It's about despair and the triumph of hope, about our infinite capacities to endure and to love and how we survive through the tales we tell. It is a story of beginnings and endings, destruction and restoration. A story of homecoming told through a remarkable gorilla called Einstein.
Felice Fallon's debut is a work of imaginative daring, written with a direct simplicity, yet deep insight. The novel's many voices will linger long in the memory and the heart.
Century publish in elegant hardback on 22 July 2021 and Felice will be talking to Mariella Frostrup on the debut slot on Times Radio, with more review and feature news to come. You might think of it as a SOPHIE'S WORLD for the animal kingdom, with a gorilla as the key character; a novel in the grand animal protagonist tradition of Kafka's A REPORT TO THE ACADEMY and WATERSHIP DOWN, but also for those who were moved by films like OKJA, BLACKFISH or MY OCTOPUS TEACHER.
About the author
Felice Fallon was born in Los Angeles, California and worked in advertising in New York before moving to London to marry and raise a family. In her mid-fifties she read history, politics and philosophy at Birkbeck. She has written screenplays, but Interviews with an Ape is her first novel.
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Published 2021-06-01 by Arrow |