For one thing, she has a motherly role around the villa. Newsflash: she's more than just the zookeeper's wife. The more we learn about Antonina, the more we see what her true role is. ![]() ![]() We'll come back to that semi-psychic stuff in a bit. But we soon learn about her "uncanny ability to calm unruly animals," which is a "strange and mysterious" gift (1.22). We're told "all the usual domestic chores awaited her each day, and she was clever with food, paintbrush, or needle" (1.2). Although accurate-she is the wife of a zookeeper-she is a zookeeper in her own right.Įarly on, she is presented to us as if she were a housewife. If we were Antonina Żabińska-girl's name is totally pronounced ahn-toh-NEE-na zha-BIN-ska-we would take issue with this book's title.
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