{"product_id":"the-dictionary-of-animal-languages-paperback-by-heidi-sopinka","title":"The Dictionary of Animal Languages Paperback by Heidi Sopinka","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eHamish Hamilton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2018-02-20)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e320\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780143196426\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e326.59\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA novel of love, longing, and art set in interwar Paris, \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Animal Languages\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to readers of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvory Frame is a renowned artist. Now in her nineties, the famously reclusive painter remains devoted to her work. She has never married, never had a family, never had a child. So when a letter arrives disclosing that she has a granddaughter living in New York, her world is turned upside down and the past is brought painfully to life.\u003cbr\u003e     Disowned by her bourgeois family, the young Ivory had gone to interwar Paris to study art, and quickly found her true home among the avant-garde painters and poets who crowd the city's cafes. In fellow painter Tacita, she finds the sister she never had. In the Zoological Gardens, she finds a subject for her art capable of fascinating her endlessly. And in Lev, the brooding, haunted Russian émigré painter fleeing the Revolution and destined for greatness, she finds the love that will mark her life forever.\u003cbr\u003e     But she loses all this, and more, when the Second World War sweeps away the life she has only just discovered. In her grief, she turns to the project she had begun in Paris, and which will consume the rest of her life: a dictionary of animal languages. Part science, part art, the dictionary strives to transcribe the wordless yearning of animals, the lonely and love-laden cries that expect no response. \u003cbr\u003e     By nature solitary,  Ivory withdraws fully into herself as she pursues her life's work. Until the discovery of one of Lev's paintings from 1940, inscribed to Ivory and now worth a fortune, brings to light a secret from her time in Paris that even Ivory could never guess. Now in her nineties, she is forced to acknowledge afresh all she has lost, and also to find meaning and beauty in a world defined by longing. \u003cbr\u003e     Masterfully written, and emotionally charged, \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Animal Languages\u003c\/i\u003e is about love and grief and art and the realization that, like tragedy, the best things in life arrive out of the blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eHEIDI SOPINKA has worked as a bush cook in the Yukon, a travel writer in Southeast Asia, a helicopter pilot, a magazine editor, and is co-founder and co-designer at Horses Atelier. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer, Brick,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLit Hub.\u003c\/i\u003e She has won a national magazine award and was \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail'\u003c\/i\u003es environment columnist. \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Animal Languages\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut novel, was chosen by \u003ci\u003eAnOther\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as \"one of the six novels set to conquer 2018,\" the book of the month by the Tate, a semi-finalist for The Morning News Tournament of Books Best Novels from 2018, shortlisted for the Kobo Writing Prize, and longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44900700848289,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780143196426","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780143196426.jpg?v=1744361208","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-dictionary-of-animal-languages-paperback-by-heidi-sopinka","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}