My Stupid Intentions

By Bernardo Zannoni, Alex Andriesse (translator),

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A stunning, ambitious novel that follows an unusual protagonist—a beech marten, a kind of weasel, who learns to read and write, discovers God and time, and develops a keen sense of self that makes him seem almost human.

My Stupid Intentions is the autobiography of a beech marten named Archy.…

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1 author picked My Stupid Intentions as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a fabulous, edgy tale that features a beech marten as the main character. 

Folktales and fairy tales are full of animal characters that make difficult moral choices. But I’ve never read anything quite like Zannoni’s novel. It’s unique. 

The protagonist, Archy, suffers from his earliest days, as many animals do. After being run off by a more powerful male marten, he hitches his fortune to that of Samuel the Fox, a ruthless forest dealmaker who wishes to be human.

What follows is a drama of love, power, and revenge that echoes the biblical in grief and revelation. What…

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