Animalia
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Animalia by Graeme Base
The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. l onore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. l onore passes her childhood with little heat and no running water, sharing a small room with her cousin Marcel, who does most of the physical labor on the farm. When World War I breaks out and the village empties, l onore gets a taste of the changes that will transform her world as the twentieth century rolls on. As the reader moves into the second part of the novel, which takes place in the 1980s, the untamed world of Puy-Larroque seems gone forever. Now, l onore has herself aged into the role of matriarch, and the family is running a large industrial pig farm, where thousands of pigs churn daily through cycles of birth, growth, and death. Moments of sublime beauty and powerful emotion mix with the thoughtless brutality waged against animals that makes the old horrors of death and disease seem like simpler times. A dramatic and chilling tale of man and beast that recalls the naturalism of writers like mile Zola, Animalia traverses the twentieth century as it examines man's quest to conquer nature, critiques the legacy of modernity and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next, and questions whether we can hold out hope for redemption in this brutal world.Graeme Base is one of the most well-known picture book illustrators in the world. When Animalia was initially released in 1986, it earned widespread acclaim, and it has since become a classic, with over two million copies sold worldwide. The Water Hole, Base's most current picture book, is a clever blend of counting book, puzzle book, tale, and artbook that has been published in Australia, the United States, Canada, Italy, France, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. Base, his artist wife Robyn, and their three children live in Melbourne.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140559965 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140559965 |
| Title | Animalia |
| Author | Graeme Base |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1996-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |