num_pages: 320
description: In April 1975, forty-seven giraffes were executed in a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town. There are no records of the event. This strange and beautiful novel tells their story from the moment of their capture in Africa, to the night when they are secretly shot one by one.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: Giraffe
titlecomplete: Giraffe
genres: Historical Fiction, Animals, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Nature, Literature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 804
publisher: Vintage Books