This is a very funny book about talking pigs. But it is so much more than that. Charles Ortleb has written a contemporary allegorical fable about the overlapping breakdown of the porcine and human public health systems. As African Swine Fever Virus, a deadly virus that infects pigs, is spreading in China and threatens to infect pigs in Western Europe and may even reach America, the timing of this provocative novel could not be more perfect...