The Giraffe's Neck
By: Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
Contributors: Whiteside, Shaun, translator
Edition: Paperback Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781408837795
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Hals der Giraffe
Description: Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin's evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in 'favourites'. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school's future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive. Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015.
Notes: Originally published as: Der Hals der Giraffe. Berlin : Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011.

Translated from the German.