City of rats / Copi ; translated by Kit Schluter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copi, Author.

Contributor:

Schluter, Kit, translator.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1659.

New Directions paperbook ; 1659

Standardized Title:

Cité des rats. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/ba6a16e8-3044-01b3-1f62-5c1751703b56

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.

Identity (Psychology).

Rats--Fiction.

Rats.

France--Fiction.

France.

Genre:

fables.

Animal fiction.

Fables.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

ix, 124 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2026.

Summary:

"Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he's got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, and-as spring blooms in the City of Lights-a budding love interest. But after a double date goes horribly wrong, Gouri and Rakä, along with the royal Rat Court-the princesses Iris and Catarina, and their hilariously unpredictable mother, the Queen of Rats-find themselves adrift on the Seine, accessories after the fact to a double homicide, using their new ally, a small human child, as a life raft. From there, the hijinks metastasize. French police collar the gang along with Mimile, a sadistic murderer who never remembers his crimes. Having escaped lock-up (from the cell they'd been tossed into with their arch-enemies, a snake and a terrier), they pay a visit to the God of Man (a homeless recluse hiding out in the Sainte-Chapelle), but then the giant Rat Devil makes his appearance, full of fiery flatulence and threatening cataclysm... Told in a series of letters purportedly written in rat language and posted from Gouri to his former master, City of Rats is the second novel by French-Argentine exile, novelist, cartoonist, playwright, actor, and queer provocateur Copi to be translated into English and perhaps his most madcap work, an X-rated fable with high-velocity prose that smashes through societal taboos- moral, sexual, or otherwise-like a bullet train hitting a glass house. Whimsical, smutty, and surprisingly profound, City of Rats will leave no reader unscathed, and every reader awestruck"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A New Directions paperbook."

ISBN:

9780811238373

0811238377

OCLC:

1519451669