Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb, teacher of religion at Wabash College and author of On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals (Oxford University Press).
Are vegetarians trying to save animals or are they trying to save themselves? Is vegetarianism about changing the world or escaping from it? These are questions the acclaimed novelist and critic J. M. Coetzee raises in a wonderfully inventive and inconclusive book.