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The Cow

By (author) Beat Sterchi
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Head of Zeus, London, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Feb 2018
Dimensions: w 145mm h 228mm
Weight: 1000g
ISBN-10: 1786699214
ISBN-13: 9781786699213
Barcode No: 9781786699213
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Synopsis
The Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir. The Cow was acclaimed as a contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read as a book of archaic power about man, his work and his food and, most importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the animal world.

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'An original, powerful, important novel' Sunday Telegraph. 'An important stir-casting first novel [with a] gentle, lyrical flavour' London Review of Books. 'A memorable and great fiction' Observer.