Join Farm today! It's only six years of your life! Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, antagonistic and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits, and farm animals illegally engineered for silence. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator's single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, an election that hangs in the balance as the City's all-powerful Mayor is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and a wise-cracking, over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad. Whether rebelling against the regimented and ridiculous nature of Farm life, exploring the all-too-familiar and consumer-obsessed world of City, experiencing the all-too-real suffering of the homeless in Pier, or confronting the secrets of his own childhood, Swallowing a Donkey's Eye's narrator is a hilarious, neurotic, and rage-filled Quixote searching for his mother, his own dignity, and the meaning of humanity.
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And now for something completely different
24 Aug 2012
By Dave Zeltserman
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I'm a big fan Tremblay's strange and offbeat narcoleptic PI novels (The Little Sleep, No Sleep Til Wonderland), and his beautifully unsettling collection of short fiction, In The Mean Time, and now I get to top my list of favorite Tremblay books with his dystopian novel, Swallowing a Donkey's Eye. My title for this review has a double meaning--yes, it's very different from Tremblay's other works (as well as anything else I've read), but it's also got a very strong Terry Gilliam Brazil vibe to it. While a crumbling bureaucracy is at the heart of the dystopian vision of Brazil, here it's a mix of futility and apathy. In this novel The City is built on top of a massive pier, and problems such as poverty and unemployment are swept under the rug, or in this case, under the pier, where the poor and impoverished banned from The City are forced to live a hellish existence. A mix of political, social and religious satire, Donkey's Eye is further infused with a nightmarish vision of where our apathy might someday take us. This is a novel I've been thinking about a week after finishing it, and I'm sure any reader giving this book a chance will also be amply rewarded.
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Rethink Orwell.
10 April 2013
By Jean-Benoit Lelievre
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It's not that George Orwell needed a makeover, really. He's probably more pertinent today than he ever was. What Paul Tremblay did with SWALLOWING A DONKEY'S EYE is to twist ANIMAL FARM into a strange, trapezoidal object of wonder. Unlike Orwell's fable, this is an all-out dystopia that talks to people of our age. Maybe it won't age as well as the classic, but it speaks louder to our generation.
Tremblay goes over the most troubling issues of our age from corporate work environment, to our relationship to reality television and religion. It's a satirical novel at its core, but like good satire, it doesn't lose itself in humor and it hurts as much as it makes you smile. Another ballsy release by ChiZine.
Tremblay goes over the most troubling issues of our age from corporate work environment, to our relationship to reality television and religion. It's a satirical novel at its core, but like good satire, it doesn't lose itself in humor and it hurts as much as it makes you smile. Another ballsy release by ChiZine.
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One of the best novels of 2012
1 April 2013
By Keith Rawson
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Swallowing A Donkey's Eye is a brilliant dystopian satire along the same lines as the very best of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, but without mimicking the two masters distinctive voices. Tremblay charts his own path and with his vivid, hilarious prose brings the worlds of Farm, City,and Pier to horrifying life. Over the last several years with his weirdboiled novels, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and his diverse, disturbing short story collection, In The Mean Time, Tremblay has become one of my favorite new writers, and in a perfect world, Swallowing A Donkey's Eye would deservedly be Tremblay's breakout novel.
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