Description
A startling, inventive novel by one of Germany’s most original young authors.
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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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781408843796 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
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