Showing results for "Giraffe" in Genre Fiction

Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to become Southern California’s first giraffes. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow.

Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than 30 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 U.S. years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature that Inge teaches every day in class.

2 Giraffen, 12 Tage, 3.000 Meilen nach Westen. Amerika, 1938. Woody Nickels hat alles verloren. Seine Familie, sein Zuhause, seine Arbeit. Der junge Mann verlässt wie so viele andere Texas und versucht sein Glück in New York. Doch als der große Hurrikan im September 1938 die gesamte Ostküste zerstört, erlischt auch der letzte Funken Hoffnung in Woody. Zwischen den Trümmern von Schiffen und Häusern macht er jedoch eine besondere Entdeckung: Zwei Giraffen, riesengroß, elegant und wunderschön, haben inmitten des Hurrikans auf einem Schiff die USA erreicht.

Anpassung ist alles, weiß Inge Lohmark. Schließlich unterrichtet die schrullige Lehrerin seit mehr als dreißig Jahren Biologie...