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The Man Who Spoke Snakish written by Andrus Kivirahk performed by Aaron Landon on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

The Man Who Spoke Snakish written by Andrus Kivirahk performed by Aaron Landon on MP3 CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781511372770
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Fantasy
Duration:  843 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Andrus Kivirahk
Performer 1:  Aaron Landon

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A bestseller in the author's native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it,The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity.

Set in a fantastical version of medieval Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a young boy, Leemet, who lives with his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of snakish, a language that allows its speakers to command all animals.

But the forest is gradually emptying as more and more people leave to settle in villages, where they break their backs tilling the land to grow wheat for their "bread" (which Leemet has been told tastes horrible) and where they pray to a god very different from the spirits worshipped in the forest's sacred grove. With lothario bears who wordlessly seduce women, a giant louse with a penchant for swimming,

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