such a good book on the way animals are treated, i loved the protagonist. i also loved the way that Tokarczuk showed the parallels between the way men treat animals and women (for example the hunters being the same men who go to brothels, the animals they killed being mainly female and the violation of those female animals), highly recommend very much an eco-feminist piece of fiction!

“Oh yes, it was one of those starving Young Ladies that naively let themselves be lured in winter by frozen apples, are caught in snares and die in torment, strangled by the wire. As I slowly became aware of what had happened here, I was gradually filled with Horror. He had caught the Deer in a snare, killed her, then butchered, roasted and eaten her body. One Creature had devoured another, in the silence and stillness of the Night. Nobody had protested, no thunderbolt had struck. And yet Punishment had come upon the devil, though no one's hand had guided death.”