The Cow

What’s it like living with a cow? You have to milk it every day, take it out to pasture, care for it. And is it even worth it when the supermarkets are full of yogurt, milk, and cheese, all wrapped up and ready to go? Tereza Říčanová lives a life most of us would never choose: it’s uncomfortable and difficult getting up at dawn and working your fingers to the bone. Days pass in the rhythm of the seasons... Life with animals is a life of observation and plenty of physical work, which awakens in the author a sensitivity for the true sense of things, renews a long-forgotten relationship with animals, establishes an inner order, and sparks the imagination. Both you and your children stand to learn many practical things from this book. Like how many stomachs a cow has, what it eats in winter, how to make butter and cheese, and what in the world a shitbag is. But don’t expect a handbook. Říčanová the Cow is first and foremost the docu-diary of an artist.