The Book of Eels Cultural & Ethnic Studies Poet Laureate and New York

Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers

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In the poet's own words

The Book of Eels Cultural & Ethnic Studies Poet Laureate and New YorkPart H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish the eel and a reflection on the human condition Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the "eel question" Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of