Krank Fuss

Name: Krank Fuss
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781923099814
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By Andrew Upton

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Written for his unborn daughter on a smallholding in Nazi Germany just before the war, Krank Fuss ('sick foot') tells the story of one of a brood of chickens recently acquired by a WWI veteran from a neighbouring farm. Ostracised because of her deformed limb, Krank... Read More

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Krank Fuss

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Written for his unborn daughter on a smallholding in Nazi Germany just before the war, Krank Fuss ('sick foot'), tells the story of one of a brood of chickens recently acquired by a WWI veteran from a neighbouring farm.

Description

Written for his unborn daughter on a smallholding in Nazi Germany just before the war, Krank Fuss ('sick foot') tells the story of one of a brood of chickens recently acquired by a WWI veteran from a neighbouring farm. Ostracised because of her deformed limb, Krank Fuss befriends Gibby, a toad who considers themself a frog, and together they explore the world of the farm around them.

Over the course of the tale, she learns the biggest dangers are never as bad as she imagined, and that even though she has no say in the conditions of her life, she must still make decisions. Those decisions matter because terrible cruelty and violence are much closer than she had thought possible.

Part allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm, part Art Brut parable, Krank Fuss unfolds against the background of an impending social catastrophe, unsettlingly echoing the world today. It is the story of the innocent discovering the cruelty of the natural world, seeking for another way that might allow the delicate Wonder of Life to peak above the nastiness, brutishness, and brevity of her apparent Fate.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781923099814

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 March 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 132

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About the Author

Andrew Upton was born in Sydney in 1966, the youngest of three children to John, a former navigator in Mosquitoes with the RAF during WWII and later a G.P., and Patty, an Australian-born woman of Irish descent. He has written a couple of plays (Hanging Man and Riflemind) and many adaptations of the classics (Hedda Gabler, Cyrano De Bergerac, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull amongst them) He was Co-Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company for eight years with his wife Cate Blanchett. They currently live in the UK with their four children, three dogs, two cats, endless chickens and occasional pigs.