The Axeman's Carnival
SKU: 9781787705517
At a glance
- 🖤 Tone
- Darkly funny, unsettling, literary
- ⚡ Pace
- Steady, character-driven
- 🐦 Vibes
- Rural isolation, strange humour, talking magpie, family dysfunction, creeping unease
- ✨ Themes
- Loneliness, obsession, communication, identity, human nature
- 🧠 Emotional Journey
- Weird, thought-provoking, emotionally sharp
- 📖 Hook
- Life on a struggling farm takes a bizarre turn when a talking magpie begins exposing uncomfortable truths about the people around him
- 💫 Perfect For
- Readers who enjoy offbeat literary fiction with dark humour and eccentric characters
About The Axeman's Carnival By Catherine Chidgey
Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. “If it keeps me awake,” says Marnie’s husband Rob, a farmer, “I’ll have to wring its neck.” But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple’s future. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors, Marnie confides in him about her violent marriage. The more Tama sees, the more the animal and the human worlds—and all the precarity, darkness and hope within them—bleed into one another. Like a stock truck filled with live cargo, the story moves inexorably towards its dramatic conclusion: the annual Axeman’s Carnival.
Part trickster, part surrogate child, part witness, Tama the magpie is the star of this story. Though what he says aloud to humans is often nonsensical (and hilarious), the tale he tells us weaves a disturbingly human sense. The Axeman’s Carnival is Catherine Chidgey at her finest—comic, profound, poetic and true.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading age
- 18+
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Europa Editions
- Published
- 13 August 2024
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781787705517
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