J M Ledgard: Giraffe | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780099490531 | Giraffe | J M Ledgard | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007 | Vintage

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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.

Über den Autor

J.M. Ledgard was born on the Shetland Islands, Scotland, in 1968, and educated in England, Scotland and America. He has been a foreign correspondent for the Economist since 1995. He divides his time between Europe and Africa.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780099490531
ISBN-10:	0099490536
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ledgard, J M
Hersteller:	Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	J M Ledgard
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.03.2007
Gewicht:	0,404 kg