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The Last Window-Giraffe (Hardcover)
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The Last Window-Giraffe (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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This book is about the madness of everyday life under a
dictatorship. It shifts in theme and time, testing the borderlines
of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, history and
autobiography - all in the unassuming guise of a children's ABC.
The Last Window-Giraffe is a playful and personal journey through
the political unrest of the seventies and eighties. It was inspired
by a Hungarian children's dictionary, entitled Window-Giraffe,
which explained the whole world in simple terms; a world where
everything was in order and all problems were easily solved.Popular
across Europe for the best part of a decade, The Last
Window-Giraffe is a politically infused rendition of the original:
quirky, astute and powerful. Peter Zilahy draws on his travels
around the 'soft dictatorships' of Eastern Europe, offering his
acerbic observations on the often bizarre spectacle. In one
instance, he describes the carnival-like protests against the
Milosevic regime in Belgrade simply and humorously. This reflects,
like the format of the book, the manner in which the regime treat
their people like children. Filled with his own striking
photographs, Zilahy gives fascinating insight into a whole other
universe behind the Iron Curtain. The Last Window-Giraffe is one of
the most unusual, beguiling books you will ever read."
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