The Dolphin Ambassador's Daughter - Signed and Numbered edition
After a catastrophic oil spill, the Whales respond with war...
A PEN/America Literary Award finalist, Richard B. Simon’s debut novel THE DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTER is a green fable in the vein of Watership Down, Animal Farm, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and The Odyssey, and is inspired by language-rich fiction from the likes of Chinua Achebe, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison.
Set in the hidden depths of our world, THE DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTER is the epic story of K’Tangu, an Orca who wants to start a war against the Humans, and Zzzwooieee, a Dolphin who is determined to prevent one.
After a devastating oil spill kills his entire family, K’Tangu, a fish-eating Orca from icy, isolated Shukut, travels to the Great Council of Dolphins, Whales, Walruses, and Seals, and demands war to drive the Humans from Ocean. But the Dolphin Ambassador knows that a war against the Humans would be disastrous. He sends his young granddaughter, Zzzwooieee, on a forbidden mission: persuade the Humans to change their ways and avert war.
Raised by her grandfather, Zzzwooieee has always wanted to travel far, to do great things like Grandfather’s exploits in the War of White Sharks. But she will have to overcome the reticence that Grandfather’s sheltering has instilled in her.
Meanwhile, as fisheating K’Tangu journeys with a rogue band of Whale-hunting Orcas (whom his kind deem repugnant cannibals) to find support for the war, he must wrestle with his prejudices, his profound loneliness, and his own shifting morality.
Richard B. Simon’s THE DOLPHIN AMBASSADOR’S DAUGHTER deals with war and peace and the pursuit of political change through violent or nonviolent means; with prejudice, genocide, and the intergenerational trauma inflicted by industrial human civilization on all life. Simon’s alternating prose and epic verse instill, rhythmically, a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all life with the ocean, the atmosphere, the ice, the rock. It is that understanding of our interdependence, with each other, with other species, with all life, with the living planet and the glistening cosmos, that can free our spirits, illuminate the true nature of reality, and inspire us to work to make the world more loving.
