Fowl Eulogies

• Lucie Rico is an author, screenwriter, and director known for the movie The Big Shake • . She is currently based in Paris. • Author is active on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luxierico/?hl=en Fowl Eulogies • is Lucie Rico’s first novel • For lovers of Antoine Laurain

• Awarded both the Prix du roman d’écologie and the Prix Littéraire du Cheval Blanc • Translator Daria Chernysheva was a recipient of the 2019 French Voices Award for excellence in translation. Her work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Triple Canopy, AzonaL, Comparative Drama • , and Tether’s End. • Intriguing and original, edgy, atmospheric and darkly humorous • Lucia Rico: "I started writing this book as a fairy tale, the same way marketing makes fairy tales, until we believe the animals we eat are adorable, wholesome, devoted beasts, with whom we have a relationship.” • A city girl inherits the family’s poultry farm when her mother dies. But when it comes to killing the chickens, she attempts to give their lives meaning by composing short biographies for each of them, therefore humanizing the meat about to be eaten. There is Theodore, “a free, independent and mischievous character,” and Léna, “the most beautiful kid, with her beautiful, well-screwed crest that ends in lace.” • There’s Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, • Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma • , and Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation • , but never has there been a humorous take on the topic of industrial animal processing. Fowl Eulogies • is an absurd fairy tale for the Ethical Carnivore. • Fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprecedented humor … From the meadow to the supermarket, this modern tale, a dazzling first novel of mischief and feathers, brings to life the singular poetry of the industrial chicken. • Originally published in France. Rights sold to Denmark: Etcetera | Serbia: Geopoetika

© 2023 World Editions (Ebook): 9781642861327

Translators: Daria Chernysheva

Release date

Ebook: 2 May 2023