The Vertical Jungle
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Edna Gee’s debut work Vertical Jungle is a fable about revolution with a twenty-first-century twist. Amid a chaos featuring greenwashing politicians, Instagram celebrities, and equally determined and confused freedom warriors, one finds the everyday conflicts of our turbulent times that we know by heart.
Pages: 96 pages
Publishing Date: March 2021
Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 cm
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-913680-12-1
Category: Illustrated Fiction
£12.99
5 in stock
Read More
Edna Gee’s debut work Vertical Jungle is a fable about revolution with a twenty-first-century twist. Amid a chaos featuring greenwashing politicians, Instagram celebrities, and equally determined and confused freedom warriors, one finds the everyday conflicts of our turbulent times that we know by heart.
Pages: 96 pages
Publishing Date: March 2021
Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 cm
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-913680-12-1
Category: Illustrated Fiction
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About the Author:
Edna Gee is a South African artist and English teacher currently living and working in Milan. From an early age, she was exposed to her country’s rich fauna and flora through regular trips to the national park and her grandfather’s stories about birds and animals.
Her family also had a wide variety of pets including a pig, chickens, cats, birds and a dog. She completed a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria after which she moved to Milan to pursue further studies in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. She has been working with Isola Art Center since 2012.
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The Vertical Jungle by Edna Gee is a charming little book that is playful and deeply imaginative. The story is richly illustrated with drawings that portray so well, for instance, the beautiful personality of urban pigeon. There is a certain parallel with George Orwell’s Animal Farm, although the overarching message is very much one of the 21st Century. The text is a joy to read, right from the start, and the book finishes with what is one of the most delightful closing sentences that I have read in a work of fiction for some time.
- Joe Gray, author of Visions for a Post-Covid World
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