Description: "Night of The Animals is the most beautiful, strange new novel I have read in years, and its obese, mentally ill, elderly protagonist is among the most engaging of heroes. The existence of this book in the present moment is a wonderment." - Mary Gaitskill "Night of the Animals inhabits my own two home landscapes, the North London of my childhood and the English Midlands of my adult years. I recognize them entirely in Bill Broun''s dark and magical futuristic rendering of the story of the Ark, except that he-a novelist of immense daring and imagination-has painted over them with a glittering varnish of myth and invention. The result is a novel of startling originality; it is important, mesmerizing and touching." - Jim Crace, author of Quarantine and The Harvest "[A] dark and magical futuristic rendering of the story of the Ark... with a glittering varnish of myth and invention. The result is a novel of startling originality; it is important, mesmerizing and touching." - Jim Crace, author of Quarantine and The Harvest "An Orwellian debut explodes ancient lore and contemporary technology to create a prescient, terrifying dystopia... highly immersive narrative. The language of the novel crackles with energy...The worlds'' religions-paganism, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Yoruba-fuse together in a luminous supernatural force... An impressive, richly imagined, deeply urgent story" - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A story as wildly moving and singular as an animal''s eyes in the dark." - New York Times "Part of the pleasure of this book comes from its tricky, ever-changing structure...Night of the Animals is elegiac and lyrical, but that doesn''t mean it can''t have a hell of a lot of fun going wild at the same time." - Vox.com "Floating aimlessly, in and out of Cuthbert''s questionable rationale and disengaged touch with reality, Broun follows the adventures of one man who is both tormented and encouraged by ghosts of his past, and of a mysterious ideology surrounding the spirit of the imprisoned animals that seeks to be free." - The Hoya (Georgetown University) "A wonderful doorstop of a book...Broun packs his novel with futuristic invention, Chablis-dry humor and a thick, dreamy nostalgia...a story as wildly moving and singular as an animal''s eyes in the dark." - The New York Times Book Review "A sci-fi fantasy in which the tale of Noah''s Ark is recast in modern-day London." - Omaha.com, Five Books You Should Read in July "Heartfelt and original." - Chicago Tribune "Smartly written." - Washington Post "[A] wildly imagined futuristic dystopia (or is it?)" - New York magazine, Approval Matrix (Highbrow/Brilliant) "Imagine the Genesis story of Noah carried forward into the future by Philip K. Dick: that might well serve as the basic premise behind Bill Broun''s debut novel, Night of the Animals." - Kirkus Reviews "In vivid prose that breathes and trembles like a living thing, Bill Broun brings into being a future that is just fantastical enough to tell the truth. Night of the Animals will captivate you, surprise you, and remind you of the strange, precarious thing it is to be human." - Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine "In vivid prose that breathes and trembles like a living thing, Bill Broun brings into being a future that is just fantastical enough to tell the truth. Night of the Animals will captivate you, surprise you, and remind you of the strange, precarious thing it is to be human." - Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine "Through precise and eloquent prose and a hint of political satire, Broun creates a near future filled with bioelectric technology and characters with patois as diverse as their desires. Broun''s novel is strange, witty, and engrossing, skipping through madness and into the realm of myth." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In prose that employs a variety of British dialects, Broun composes a story that''s engaging not only for its strange plot, but for its inventive use of language, too." - Huffington Post, 22 Summer Books You Won''t Want to Miss "Night of the Animals is by turns visionary, ironic, satirical and deeply remorseful. The felled woodlands, the erased species, a new Great Extinction--all happen within one long lifetime. It''s a rich addition to the literature of lament, viewed with sympathy and longing." - Wall Street Journal "[T]his story...lingers long after the final page." - Houston Chronicle "Bill Broun''s Night of the Animals is troubling in all the right ways: a vividly imagined dystopia and an ecological parable that seems all too possible and all too real. It''s compulsively readable-a novel that earns your close attention, from beginning to end." - Jess Row, author of Your Face in Mine "It''s an Orwellian, mystical affair with a peppering of environmental morality, but more than anything it''s a wild, weird ride." - Masculine Times "Broun''s debut is a fascinating work set in a detailed dystopian future...This highly recommended, original tour de force creates a richly imagined realm that evokes Margaret Atwood''s The Handmaid''s Tale and the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil while maintaining a sense of wonder." - Library Journal (starred review) "Imaginative, fast-paced, thoughtful, and awash in laser-like imagery, debut novelist Broun''s phantasmagorical fable vibrantly blends myth and satire to paint both a cautionary warning about present behavior and a futuristic vision of what the unbridled abuse of nature might unveil." - Booklist (starred review)

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