Mačja kuga

by Maja Novak

A deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult world—particularly the mistreatment of animals. Ira struggles to reconcile her life with a world in which people are small-minded, the chances for happiness are few, and petty tyrants rule. She takes a job with The Lady, a capitalist entrepreneur who runs the Ark, a pet emporium where she expects “pets will become the new jewelry.” Ira careens into adulthood alongside a fairy-tale cast: her evil mother and sisters, a benevolent grandmother, best friend and alter ego Felipe, a blind painter who moonlights as a window dresser, and a pair of twins so identical their employer thinks they’re one person. Acclaimed novelist Maja Novak masterfully conjures a series of vivid tableaux, setting Ira loose in a world where miniature wooden animals come to life—where jealousy, dreams, and realities unfold as Ira’s rite of passage parallels the backdrop of communism’s dying days and capitalism’s shaky start.

Genres: Novels

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Jennifer (Insert Lit Pun)]

An utterly bizarre book - more thoughts to come in a video soon.

[Sheila Samuelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 4 Stars!!
Review:
Thank you to North Atlantic Books for sending me this book to review for them!!

Going into this i was gonna rate it 5 stars cause its about cats but than as i read it certain quotes came up that i STRONGLY Disagreed with surrounding religion etc so thats why i rated it 4 stars!!

I did love how Chapter 20 in the beginning they talked about how important it is get your cats vaccinated from disease like Feline Cancer, Feline Rabies etc and how many cats arent vaccinated.

This story was mainly about a Slovainian child who discoveries early in life that adults can be cruel to animals but mainly to cats and how as she gets older she works for an adoption place that ends cruelty to cats.

A MUST READ If you love Cats like me :)!!

[Heidi Plummer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was nothing like I thought it was going to be. I don't see how the name fits until the very end of the book and I got lost a lot but I kept wanting to know what bizzare thing was going to happen next. Perhaps it lost something in being translated.