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Giraffe

If purely fiction Giraffe would be a tragic story, sure to touch our hearts. However, the knowledge that it is based upon an actual incident serves to make Ledgard's strong narrative even more lamentable. This listener was not only saddened but incensed. On a mild spring day in a small Czechoslovakian town 49 giraffes held in captivity were shot and dismembered. This was the largest herd of giraffes ever confined; twenty-three of them were pregnant. The slaughter was ordered by the communist government, with no explanation then or in time to come. These quiet, graceful animals had been caught in Africa and brought to a zoo. The story of their capture and eventual massacre, in Ledgard's story, serves as a political parable as seen through the eyes of Emil, who traveled with the animals, Jiri, a shooter hired to kill the giraffes, and the most poignant observer of all, Snehurka, a giraffe cow.

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  • "En 1971, une girafe, Snehurka, vient au monde. Son existence bascule lorsqu'elle est capturée avec une vingtaine de compagnes en Afrique et acheminée en Tchécoslovaquie. Cette migration assistée a pour but de créer une race supérieure, mais les girafes contractent un virus qui pourrait décimer la faune locale. La dictature engage alors une vaste campagne de désinformation. Premier roman."
  • "If purely fiction Giraffe would be a tragic story, sure to touch our hearts. However, the knowledge that it is based upon an actual incident serves to make Ledgard's strong narrative even more lamentable. This listener was not only saddened but incensed. On a mild spring day in a small Czechoslovakian town 49 giraffes held in captivity were shot and dismembered. This was the largest herd of giraffes ever confined; twenty-three of them were pregnant. The slaughter was ordered by the communist government, with no explanation then or in time to come. These quiet, graceful animals had been caught in Africa and brought to a zoo. The story of their capture and eventual massacre, in Ledgard's story, serves as a political parable as seen through the eyes of Emil, who traveled with the animals, Jiri, a shooter hired to kill the giraffes, and the most poignant observer of all, Snehurka, a giraffe cow."@en
  • "If purely fiction Giraffe would be a tragic story, sure to touch our hearts. However, the knowledge that it is based upon an actual incident serves to make Ledgard's strong narrative even more lamentable. This listener was not only saddened but incensed. On a mild spring day in a small Czechoslovakian town 49 giraffes held in captivity were shot and dismembered. This was the largest herd of giraffes ever confined; twenty-three of them were pregnant. The slaughter was ordered by the communist government, with no explanation then or in time to come. These quiet, graceful animals had been caught in Africa and brought to a zoo. The story of their capture and eventual massacre, in Ledgard's story, serves as a political parable as seen through the eyes of Emil, who traveled with the animals, Jiri, a shooter hired to kill the giraffes, and the most poignant observer of all, Snehurka, a giraffe cow."
  • "More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA."@en
  • "Told from multiple points of view, a herd of giraffes is captured in Africa, brought to a small Czech town, and then systematically slaughtered by the secret police, in story offering parallels to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia."@en
  • "Told from multiple points of view, a herd of giraffes is captured in Africa, brought to a small Czech town, and then systematically slaughtered by the secret police, in story offering parallels to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia."
  • "Als in 1975 in een nacht in een Tsjecho-Slowaakse dierentuin 49 giraffes op last van het communistische regime worden doodgeschoten, maakt dat veel indruk op uiteenlopende betrokkenen."
  • "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, a middling totalitarian state in the middle of Europe, a nation of sleepwalkers."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction in English"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Anglicky psané romány"

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  • "Girafe : roman"
  • "Giraffe : [a novel]"
  • "Žirafy"
  • "Giraffe"@en
  • "Giraffe"

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