THE ZOO
Book ID/图书代码： 12802011B46653
English Summary/英文概要： With a debt to his spiritual fathers, Orwell and Swift, Richard Kalich brings us The Zoo -- the darkly comic allegory of Wise Old Owl’s attempt to animalize Animal World. The story unfolds with a chilling and all too familiar ring to our own human history. Joining forces with the likes of Muerte Buzzard, Sly fox, and Michael Ferret, Wise Old Owl builds a zoo to ’zoo-in’ those animals deemed responsible for the world’s plight. First zoo’d are those animals who look different. Followed by artists and thinkers. Especially dangerous are animals possessing an inner life. It’s not long before the entire population is at risk.
Some of the more courageous animals rebel. They call upon the two-faced ferret to organize a revolutionary army with the guru, Polly Parrot, at the lead. But here the novel takes an unexpected turn.
Displaying a talent for fantasy and allegory that is endlessly inventive, funny and savage, by the story’s end, Kalich has, with a master satirist’s razor-sharp teeth, picked clean Owl’s oppressive regime, leaving it bereft of reason, purpose, and sanity.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這本有点黑色幽默的寓言，試圖使 Wise Old Owl (聪明老猫头鹰）所居住的動物世界變得人性化。他們和我們人類歷史有太多的相似之處。在Muerte Buzzard, Sly Fox 和 Michael Ferret的推動下，動物園內建立了一個“隔離區”，把部分被視為造成動物瀕臨滅絕困境的的動物們隔離。第一個隔離區內的動物是那些看起來跟其他動物有所不同的種類。之後被隔離的是所有藝術家們和社會思想家的動物。特別危險的種類則是那些擁有一個內在心靈生命的動物們。貓頭鷹認為整個世界很快就會陷入危險之中。
有一些有膽量的動物們開始造反。它們會號召這隻雙面ferret (雪貂) 去組織革命軍與作為首領的Polly Parrot (鸚鵡) 共同奮起反抗。但在這部小說裡會通向一個峰迴路轉的結果。
Awards/获奖情况："The Zoo starts where Animal Farm leaves off."---Velon Shuzkeil "Kalich has written the definitive novel on the stupidity of intolerance"---Marion Boyars
About the Author/作者介绍： 理查•卡林奇出生在紐約。他備受讚譽的小說《The Nihilesthete》出版發行於英國，德國，以色列，丹麥和荷蘭。這部小說在1987年的《費城詢問報》被評論家卡琳•羅馬諾稱為“最具價值的二十四部小說之一”,並被選中代表美國參選法蘭克福圖書博覽會。《The Nihilesthete》被提名為Pen（作家）/ Faulkner Award（福克納獎）, Hemingway Award（海明威獎），National Book Award（美國國家圖書獎）和Pulitzer Prize（普利策獎）。卡林奇和他的孿生兄弟羅伯特共同在紐約開辦電影製作公司。RICHARD KALICH was born in New York City. His highly celebrated novel The Nihilesthete has received publications in England, Germany, Israel, Denmark and Holland. It was selected by the Philadelphia Inquirer critic Carlin Romano as one of the twenty-four "Most Noteworthy" novels of 1987, and was selected to represent U.S. titles at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Nihilesthete was nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award, the Hemingway Award, a National Book Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. Kalich co-heads a film production company with his twin brother Robert in New York City.
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