![]() ![]() Accidentally ending up in New York City, the chimp meets street actor Leon and together they cheat and trick their ways into staging an underground production of The Tempest. Interspecies love is not, however, allowed to happen without repercussions, and eventually Bruno, who for a series of dramatic events has become a fugitive, will have to make his own way into the human world. In brief, Bruno is adopted by the primatologist in charge of the project, with whom he promptly falls in love a sexual relationship between the two ensues. At a young age, he is selected as the subject of a project attempting to teach apes the human language. The novel tells us the story, as narrated by Bruno himself from his place of confinement some years later, of a young chimp born in a Chicago zoo. When the postman handed me the package and I physically felt the weight of the tome, I prayed to myself that I hadn’t made an error of judgement in committing my precious reading time to a talking chimp. TEoBL was released at the beginning of 2011 but I hadn’t heard of it until I received an email from the publishers, offering me a free copy of the book in exchange for a review. What would be a stranger idea than a novel about a chimp who has learnt to speak who directs Shakespearean plays? Arguably, the fact that such novel has apparently sunk without a ripple. ![]()
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