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Century is to publish Interviews with an Ape by Felice Fallon next summer.
Selina Walker, publisher at the Cornerstone imprint, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann.
Interviews with an Ape is about a gorilla called Einstein who can communicate with humans through sign language.
Walker described the novel as a "truly original, a series of interlinked stories told by a group of animals and the people who care for or exploit them. It’s a story about all of us – animals and humans – a tale of triumph and defeat, of hope over despair, and our infinite capacities to endure, to love, and to survive through the stories we tell. A work of imaginative daring, it’s written with a direct simplicity as well as a deep insight into the animal kingdom and the natural world around us."
Fallon, who has previously written screenplays, said: "My primary objective is to tell a good story, and one that will lend a new perspective about the world around us. I hope the characters, both animal and human, succeed in doing this by relating to the reader in their own words and voices their unique stories."
Dixon added: "Felice Fallon writes with such empathy, humour and love – her absorbing debut, Interviews with an Ape, is a transformative reading experience and I’m so thrilled that through Selina Walker’s publishing vision it will be shared with a wide audience."
Interviews with an Ape will be published in hardback by Century in July 2021, and comes with an advance quote from Michael Palin who calls it "an unusually powerful novel, and a timely one too".