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      Cow

      by Beat Sterchi
      Published
      May 1990
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      353
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      Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir.



      Cow was acclaimed as a contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read as a book of archaic power about man, his work and his food and, most importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the animal world.

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      Sep 2018 Head of Zeus ISBN13 9781786697479 ISBN10 1786697475
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      First Edition May 1990 Pantheon (UK) ISBN13 9780394584515 ISBN10 0394584511
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      May 2018 Head of Zeus ISBN13 9781786697462 ISBN10 1786697467
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