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, a legendary flying frog, and a young charismatic
viper named Ints, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is a totally inventive
novel for readers of David Mitchell, Sjon, and Terry Pratchett.
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