9780099490531
Giraffe
Ledgard, J. M.
ISBN 13: 9780099490531
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 2007
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'Giraffe' is a story about strangeness, about creatures that are alien, silent, finely mazed and impossibly stretched. It is also a story about captivity, about Czechoslovakia, a middling totalitarian state in the middle of Europe that is itself asleep, under a spell, a nation of sleepwalkers.
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Giraffe (Paperback) (ISBN: 9780099490531) Ledgard, J. M. Quantity Available: 1
Book Description: VINTAGE, United Kingdom, 2007. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New edition. 199 x 134 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the largest captive herd of giraffes in the world. Ledgard tells the story of the giraffes from the moment of their capture in Africa to their deaths behind the Iron Curtain. We see them first through the eyes of Emil, a haemodynamicist (he studies blood flow in vertical creatures) who is chosen to accompany them from Hamburg into Czechoslovakia. There Amina, a sleepwalker, a factory girl, glimpses their arrival and goes each day to gaze up at them. She is with them at the end, blinding them with a torch, as Jiri, a sharpshooter, brings them down one by one. "Giraffe" is a story about strangeness, about creatures that are alien. It is also a story about captivity, about Czechoslovakia, a middling totalitarian state in the middle of Europe that is itself asleep, under a spell, a nation of sleepwalkers. Bookseller Inventory # AAZ9780099490531 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Vintage, 2007. paperback. Book Condition: New. *** NEW COPY *** TITLE SHIPPED FROM UK *** Binding paperback Talks about giraffes from the moment of their capture in Africa to their deaths behind the Iron Curtain. This book presents a story about strangeness, about creatures that are alien. It is also about captivity, about Czechoslovakia. Bookseller Inventory # 0099490536 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Random House, 2007. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from UK. Bookseller Inventory # FR-9780099490531 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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