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What is Animalia about?

*Animalia* retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of war, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal industrialism reflecting an ancestral tendency to violence. Only the enchanted realm of childhood – that of Éléonore, the matriarch, and that of Jérôme, the last in the lineage – and the innate freedom of the animals offer any respite from the visible barbarity of humanity. Written in shifting prose that reflects the passage of time, *Animalia* is a powerful novel about man’s desire to conquer nature and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next.‘ *Animalia* is a book about sex and violence, but it has unusual sobriety, and a story with a deep pull. The way it senses the natural world, in seed, vein, hair, grain, pore, bud, f luid, is like nothing I’ve read.’ – Daisy Hildyard, author of *The Second Body*words : 124126

Author

Amo, Jean-Baptiste Del

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925774573

Rating

4.28 / 5 (141 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14