Night of the Animals: A Novel - Couverture rigide

“Night of The Animals is the most beautiful, strange new novel I have read in years, and its obese, mentally ill, elderly protagonist is among the most engaging of heroes. The existence of this book in the present moment is a wonderment.” (Mary Gaitskill)

“[A] dark and magical futuristic rendering of the story of the Ark... with a glittering varnish of myth and invention. The result is a novel of startling originality; it is important, mesmerizing and touching.” (Jim Crace, author of Quarantine and The Harvest)

“Bill Broun’s Night of the Animals is troubling in all the right ways: a vividly imagined dystopia and an ecological parable that seems all too possible and all too real. It’s compulsively readable-a novel that earns your close attention, from beginning to end.” (Jess Row, author of Your Face in Mine)

“An Orwellian debut explodes ancient lore and contemporary technology to create a prescient, terrifying dystopia... highly immersive narrative. The language of the novel crackles with energy...The worlds’ religions-paganism, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Yoruba-fuse together in a luminous supernatural force... An impressive, richly imagined, deeply urgent story” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“In vivid prose that breathes and trembles like a living thing, Bill Broun brings into being a future that is just fantastical enough to tell the truth. Night of the Animals will captivate you, surprise you, and remind you of the strange, precarious thing it is to be human.” (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine)

“A story as wildly moving and singular as an animal’s eyes in the dark.” (New York Times)

“Night of the Animals is by turns visionary, ironic, satirical and deeply remorseful. The felled woodlands, the erased species, a new Great Extinction--all happen within one long lifetime. It’s a rich addition to the literature of lament, viewed with sympathy and longing.” (Wall Street Journal)

“In prose that employs a variety of British dialects, Broun composes a story that’s engaging not only for its strange plot, but for its inventive use of language, too.” (Huffington Post, 22 Summer Books You Won't Want to Miss)

“[T]his story...lingers long after the final page.” (Houston Chronicle)

“[A] wildly imagined futuristic dystopia (or is it?)” (New York magazine, Approval Matrix (Highbrow/Brilliant))