Nataka And The Backward God

Nataka the Protean is minding her own business, arguing with her raven and pottering around her dishevelled garden when in an unguarded moment she allows herself to be spotted by a human busybody and dragged off to a nursing home. But before she goes, she fulfils the heartfelt wish of one desperately suffering animal. Little does she know that with that single act she has set in motion a chain of events with life-changing consequences for both herself and those around her, and is herself embarking on a perilous and harrowing journey of self-discovery. Assume that all animals are capable of reasoning and feeling as we do. Assume that Nataka the Protean, an Immortal commanding countless illusions and enchantments, has existed in our midst since time immemorial. How might we humans, who consider ourselves the apex species on this planet, be perceived by such an entity and her non-human companions? How might they describe our behaviours and beliefs? And how might they respond when confronted with human suffering, love, cruelty, greed and atonement? ... Above all, how might such a superior, immortal being, a being that lacked only the capacity to feel emotion, react if she were suddenly to discover what it is to love and grieve? This novel defies categorisation. It is a story of love (and hate), at once unapologetically sentimental and subversive; action packed, reflective, angry, tragicomic, fantastical and satirical. It invites us to reflect on what it means to be both human and animal, on the tension between morality, ideology, compassion and greed, and on the absurdities inherent in many of our most dearly-held values and traditions. The story is for those who are open to alternative possibilities and perspectives, who enjoy having their ideas stretched and challenged, who secretly feel that our world would be all the better for the injection of a little bit of magic into it, and who relish comedy that is dark, zany, subversive, irreverent and larded with tragedy.

• | Author: Glose Raven, Tytus The Baron, Dani Kaye
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 582 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1720094691
• | ISBN-13: 9781720094692