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Giraffe — J.M. Ledgard
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Published:
2006 -
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Main Genre:
General Fiction -
Time Period:
1960's-1970's 20th Century Contemporary -
Pages:
320 -
Age Level:
18 & up -
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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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