- Fantasy, Traditions, Extinct languages, Fiction
Set in a fantastical version of medieval Europe, this book follows a young boy, Leemer, who lives with his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of Snakish, a language that allows its speakers to command all animals.
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Classical in form, grave, effortless and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Andrus Kivirähk
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 421
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, Black Cat (an imprint of Grove Atlantic), Black Cat
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780802190956
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Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 4 have read it and 5 want to.
“The forest has been left empty.”
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