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THE GIRAFFES NECK
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| By: |
Judith Schalansky |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
140884379X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408843796 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2014 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Synopsis: |
Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lomark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. It is the beginning of the new school year, but, as people look west in search of work and opportunities, it's future begins to be in doubt. Frau Lohmark has no sympathy for her pupils and scorns indulgent younger teachers who talk to their students as peers, play games with them, or (worse) even go so far as to have 'favourites'. A strict devotee of the Darwinian principle of evolution, Frau Lohmark believes that only the best specimens of a species are fit to succeed. But now everything and everyone resists the old way of things and Inge Lohmark is forced to confront her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive. Written with cool elegance and humane irony, The Giraffe's Neck is an exquisite revelation of a novel, and what the novel can do, that will resonate in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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Returnable |
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