The Feline Plague - Novel
The Feline Plague - Novel

The Feline Plague - Novel

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Maja Novak and Maja Visenjak-Limon
A deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult worldparticularly the mistreatment of animals. Ira struggles to reconcile her life with a world in which people are small-minded, the chances for happiness are few, and petty tyrants rule. She takes a job with The Lady, a capitalist entrepreneur who runs the Ark, a pet emporium where she expects pets will become the new jewelry. Ira careens into adulthood alongside a fairy-tale cast: her evil mother and sisters, a benevolent grandmother, best friend and alter ego Felipe, a blind painter who moonlights as a window dresser, and a pair of twins so identical their employer thinks theyre one person. Acclaimed novelist Maja Novak masterfully conjures a series of vivid tableaux, setting Ira loose in a world where miniature wooden animals come to lifewhere jealousy, dreams, and realities unfold as Iras rite of passage parallels the backdrop of communisms dying days and capitalisms shaky start.

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