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Giraffe — J.M. Ledgard

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Paperback editions:

  • Paperback
  • Apr-2007
  • Vintage (UK)
  • ISBN: 0099490536
  • ISBN13: 9780099490531

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Aug-2007
  • Penguin
  • ISBN: 0143038966
  • ISBN13: 9780143038962

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Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • Apr-2006
  • Random House
  • ISBN: 0224076892
  • ISBN13: 9780224076890

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  • Hardcover
  • Aug-2006
  • Penguin
  • ISBN: 1594200998
  • ISBN13: 9781594200991

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Aug-2007
  • Penguin

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Audio editions:

  • Audio CD
  • Aug-2006
  • Penguin Audio
  • ISBN: 0143059041
  • ISBN13: 9780143059042

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  • Audible
  • Aug-2006
  • Penguin Audio

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Description
In 1975 secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and orchestrated the slaying of forty-nine giraffes, the largest captive herd in the world. This massacre -- never fully explained until now -- lies at the heart of J. M. Ledgard's haunting first novel, which recounts the story of the giraffes from their capture in Africa to their deaths in a faraway country. At once vivid and unearthly, Giraffe tells of creatures that are alien and silent, of captivity, and of the inhabitants of a totalitarian state, sleepwalking through the "Communist moment" in the mid-1970s. Brilliantly transporting and dreamlike, Giraffe is a modern fable about the power of living creatures to enchant us into wakefulness.
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