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Ladataan... The Constant RabbitTekijä: Jasper Fforde
   Books Read in 2021 (602) Books Read in 2023 (1,365) Books Read in 2020 (3,478) » 2 lisää Books Read in 2022 (3,792) infjsarah's wishlist (35) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.   ) fionaanne | Nov 14, 2023 |  Fforde uses this premise to write a trenchant satire on right-wing extremism, Brexit, racial politics, labour exploitation, and animal cruelty. None of this gets too heavy, as he wraps it in the rollicking tale of Peter Knox, a rabbit spotter with RabCoT, who gets inveigled by a rabbit femme fatale into supporting the Rabbit Underground. There are lots of popular culture references and arch observations to sugar the pill, but his message is clear all the same. ( ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 | ) CarolKub | Mar 9, 2023 |  ) bangerlm | Jan 18, 2023 | In The Constant Rabbit, a standalone novel, Jasper Fforde employs a gimmick like the one he used in the Nursery Crimes novels. Here the uplift trope has a darker, sharper satirical edge. In 1965, all the rabbits, foxes, and weasels in the UK magically become uplifted into sentient bipeds of human size or a little larger. (Think Jimmy Stewart’s drinking buddy, Harvey, and you won’t be far off.” They suffer all the travails of a new immigrant culture. Humans treat them with a wide range of hypocrisy and prejudices based on species and social class. Hate groups like “TwoLegsGood” harass them. Fascist laws are passed to prevent such crimes as burrowing, and the government plans a massive involuntary relocation project called the “Rehoming.” Our protagonist is a librarian who becomes a “spotter” for a special police squad to control rabbit crime. He lives in a middle-class neighborhood that is thrown into turmoil when a rabbit family moves in next door. The novel is by turns hilarious, scary, and moving. The world of the novel is wonderfully detailed and consistent, and its satirical purpose is always clear. As one character explains, “Perhaps that’s what satire does—not change things wholesale but nudge the collective consciousness in s direction that favors justice and equality” (“Bouncing with Constance"). Indeed, 4 stars. ( ) Tom-e | Jan 13, 2023 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML:"Reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four." ??The Guardian "Every book of Fforde's seems to be a cause for celebration." ?? Charles Yu, The New York Times Book Review on Early Riser A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They wear clothes and can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an inexplicable Spontaneous Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years earlier. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Spick & Span awards for the best-kept village. No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and she and her family decide they are to stay. Unusually, their neighbors??longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa??decide to stand with them . . . and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or to humans, but not both. With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti-Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species. An inimitable blend of satire, fantasy and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing crea Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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