The Giraffe's Neck

by Judith Schalansky

Book Overview

Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: In this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620403382
• ISBN13: 9781620403389
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"