To Leave with the Reindeer

"You love animals. This book tells their story and your own. The story of a child who believes that reindeer pull a sled full of presents, a child who will be forced one day to stop believing. You have to grow up, to be free. It's hard, even impossible. You are just like the animals, all those animals that we imprison, that we breed, that we protect, that we eat. And neither the animals nor you know how to find freedom. And yet you must."

Olivia Rosenthal's To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, and questions its limits, by exploring how humans relate to animals. Rosenthal weaves an intricate pattern, combining the narrative of a self with many other voices - vets, farmers, breeders, trainers, a butcher - to produce a polyphonic composition full of fascinating and disconcerting insights. Wise, precise, generous, To Leave with the Reindeer takes a clear-eyed look at the dilemmas of domestication, both human and animal, and the price we might pay to break free.

„Iubesti animalele. Aceasta carte spune povestea lor si a ta.