![]() ![]() 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. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath…Įxquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by one of our brightest young writers. ![]() In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette’s theatrical antics in Paris. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards for Australian Short Story Collection 2014Įxquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. Winner of the Readings New Australian Writing Award 2014 ![]()
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