Animalia Paradoxa Tufula comes from the mountains to

comes from the mountains to say that clouds

could only be heard and savoured over beloved

Here poetry and short fiction sit side-by-side in a buzz of conversations

and the ability to make a range of characters live and breathe

Animalia Paradoxa Tufula comes from the mountains toA virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari; and a childs bullying summons archaic armies. Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria, these scenes make rich and strange connections between ancient and new, human and animal, Africa and Europe, reality and dream. Includes prize winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africas