The man who spoke Snakish
Kivirähk, Andrus2016
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Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty - people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with bare-bottomed primates and their love of ancient traditions, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves, and speak to snakes.
Main title:
The man who spoke Snakish / Andrus Kivirähk ; translated by Christopher Moseley.
Author:
Kivirähk, Andrus, authorMoseley, Christopher, translator
Imprint:
New York : Grove Press, 2016.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Estonian.
ISBN:
9781611855395 (pbk)
Dewey class:
894.54533
LC class:
PH666.21.I77
Language:
EnglishEstonian
BRN:
1441338