About Heart of Swine
“The last swine left on Earth, Captain Grunter, is on a quest for justice.
With the support of his improbable companions, he delves into the inescapable nightmares of a late-capitalist mediascape characterised by sensationalised poverty, fetish consumerism and glamourised environmental catastrophes.
Through the lies and riddles of the villains he faces, the pig superhero begins his philosophical journey of what it means to be more-than-bacon.”
Think you’re living in an environmental dystopia? Wait until we start thawing a frozen planet with pig farts. That’s where the story begins and it doesn’t get any less wild. Explore the dark, porky underbelly beneath humanity’s seemingly ever-more-virtuous race toward sustainability – and the genius puppet-masters who watch our feeble bamboo-straw-buying attempts and smile, while flattening another rainforest.
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Author Bio:
I studied Creative Writing and English Literature at LMU and Environment, Politics and Society at UCL.
I strive to create stories that reflect the complexity of human nature and question the unhealthy entanglement with materiality.
What pushes me to write this novel and to write in general is the fact that too many don’t understand a good old thick Italian accent.
I love playing violin, cello and trumpet.