With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these ten strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant kee...(展开全部)

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper co...(展开全部)

汉娜•亭蒂，美国文学杂志《一个故事》创始人之一，《动物怪谭》获选为2003年美国悬疑小说，海明威文学奖次奖，被翻译成17国语言.长篇小说《THE GOOD THIEF》获《纽约时报》年度好书,被誉为“第二个爱伦坡”。