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The short stories in Ceridwen Dovey's collection, Only the Animals (2014), are concerned animals who have been directly affected by human actions, and what human war and conflict mean for them.Receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews, the book won both the 2014 Queensland Literary Award and the 2014 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.

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The title of Ceridwen Dovey's second book comes from a quote by Boria Sax: "What does it mean to be human? Perhaps only the animals can know." Sax is an author and academic with a particular interest in anthrozoology, which is the study of the relationship between humans and animals throughout history and across cultures. Only the Animals takes up that task but gives it a poetic twist.

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Only the Animals consists of short stories narrated by animals in the midst of human conflicts. One of the questions that plagues many of the animals in the book is the question of what, exactly, separates human beings from animals. Some of the book's animal narrators, like the dolphin Sprout, snidely insist that people and dolphins, at least.

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ISBN-10: 0374226636. ISBN-13: 9780374226633. The stories in this animal's-eye-view of humans is a remarkable literary achievement --- the souls of 10 animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways tell their astonishing stories of life and death.

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ONLY THE ANIMALS. By Ceridwen Dovey. Illustrated. 248 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25. Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of two story collections, "Birds of a Lesser Paradise" and "Almost.

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All of which is a terrifically long preamble to Only the Animals, the second book by 35-year-old, South African-born, Australian- and American-educated Ceridwen Dovey.It follows her coolly confident debut novel, Blood Kin (2007), which captured the voices of three men in the thrall of a dictator in an unnamed country and was published in fifteen languages.

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Only The Animals asks us to find our way back to empathy not only for animals, but for other human beings, and to believe again. "I have been waiting, since Blood Kin, for another work of fiction by Ceridwen Dovey. Only the Animals is filled with knowledge and wisdom and beauty. It leaves a strange and striking trace on its reader."

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Only the Animals, by Ceridwen Dovey '03, is a beautifully wrought, disconcerting collection of stories told by the souls of dead animals.A cat is picked off by a sniper on the Western Front; a blue mussel drowns in Pearl Harbor; a courageous tortoise is launched into Soviet-era space; and a self-mutilating parrot is abandoned in Beirut amid the 2006 Israeli air strikes.

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Ceridwen Dovey's novel Only the Animals doesn't behave like a novel. It slips between categories: from a collection of short stories, towards a collection of essays, and back to the novel.

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Wonderfully weird and profoundly witty, Australian writer Dovey (Blood Kin, 2008) recounts a history of 20th-century human catastrophe in 10 short stories, each told by an animal who was there.In "Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat, and I," a house cat—inadvertently separated from her beloved bohemian owner—prowls the trenches of the western front, giving comfort to the soldiers and.

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Ceridwen Dovey (born 1980) is a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author. In 2009 she was named a 5 under 35 nominee by the National Book Foundation and in 2020 won The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.. Only the Animals. Melbourne, Victoria Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin books. 2014..

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Ceridwen Dovey 's debut novel, Blood Kin, was published in fifteen countries, short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Award, and selected for the U.S. National Book Foundation's prestigious 5 Under 35 honors list. The Wall Street Journal named her one of their "artists to watch." She studied social anthropology at Harvard and New York University, and now lives with her husband and son in Sydney.

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Hardcover. $5.32. Paperback. $1.99 15 Used from $1.99 2 New from $12.12. An enthralling, daring collection of stories narrated by animals caught up in large-scale human wars and linked in personal or poetic ways to the great writers of their time. In a trench on the Western Front, a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris.

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An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal worst and our creative best, Only the Animals asks us to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction. Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be.