# The Man Who Spoke Snakish

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- Book: [The Man Who Spoke Snakish](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrus-kivirahk/the-man-who-spoke-snakish) ([The Man Who Spoke Snakish.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrus-kivirahk/the-man-who-spoke-snakish.md))
- Authors: [Andrus Kivirähk](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrus-kivirahk), [Christopher Moseley](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-moseley)
- Publisher: Grove Press UK
- ISBN: 978-16-1185-527-2
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they’re bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with his hunter-gatherer family. But when incomprehensible outsiders arrive aboard ships and settle nearby, with an intriguing new religion, the forest begins to empty – people are moving to the village and breaking their backs tilling fields to make bread. Meanwhile, Leemut and the last forest-dwelling humans refuse to adapt: with bare-bottomed primates and their love of ancient traditions, promiscuous bears, and a single giant louse, they live in shacks, keep wolves, and speak to snakes. Told with moving and satirical prose, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a fiercely imaginative allegory about a boy, and a nation, standing on the brink of dramatic change.