Judith Schalansky

Edición revisada y ampliada con un nuevo prefacio y cinco islas adicionales: Isla de Gough, Sentinel del Norte, Agalega, Nukulaelae y las Islas Midway. En este galardonado atlas, Judith Schalansky no

Visualmente deslumbrante y con un diseño único, este libro recopila cincuenta islas alejadas en todos los sentidos de tierra firme, de la gente, los aeropuertos y los folletos turísticos. Su autora utilizo acontecimientos historicos e informes cientificos como punto de partida para cada isla que proporcionan informacion sobre que distancia la separa del continente, si esta habitada, sus caracteristicas y las historias que han configurado su acervo local.Con sus impresionantes mapas a todo color y su aire de misteriosa aventura, Atlas de islas remotas es perfecto para el viajero romantico que hay en todos nosotros.

Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lomark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. It is the beginning of the new school year, but, as people look west in search of work and opportunities, it's future begins to be in doubt. Frau Lohmark has no sympathy for her pupils and scorns indulgent younger teachers who talk to their students as peers, play games with them, or (worse) even go so far as to have 'favourites'. A strict devotee of the Darwinian principle of evolution, Frau Lohmark believes that only the best specimens of a species are fit to succeed. But now everything and everyone resists the old way of things and Inge Lohmark is forced to confront her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive. Written with cool elegance and humane irony, The Giraffe's Neck is an exquisite revelation of a novel, and what the novel can do, that will resonate in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned.

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.

Anpassung im Leben ist alles, wei Inge Lohmark. Schlielich unterrichtet sie seit mehr als dreiig Jahren Biologie. In einer Stadt im hinteren Vorpommern. Dass ihre Schule in vier Jahren geschlossen werden soll, ist nicht zu andern die Stadt schrumpft, es fehlt an Kindern. Aber noch vertreibt Inge Lohmark, Lehrerin vom alten Schlag, mit ihrem Starrsinn alles Storende. Als sie schlielich Gefuhle fur eine Schulerin entwickelt und ihr Weltbild ins Wanken gerat, versucht sie in immer absonderlicheren Einfallen zu retten, was nicht mehr zu retten ist.

"Il blu non ti dona", dice a Jenny la nonna. E anche il nonno trova bizzarro che una ragazzina speri di imbarcarsi un giorno: "Le donne sulle navi portano sfortuna". Ma la nipote non si lascia dissuadere, sogna le acque verdazzurre e i cavallucci marini, isole all'orizzonte e una camicia blu da marinaio al posto della sua giacca a vento rossa. Un'infanzia sulla costa baltica della DDR, tra teli a fiori e boe rosse, gemme d'ambra e megafoni che gracchiano dalla torre di salvataggio, si dispiega cosi in racconti e visioni. Jenny moltiplica e incrocia le linee della Storia e le linee di confine sulle mappe di un atlante: e allo stesso tempo Seriosa, Lucy, Claude, Wolfgang. "Il blu non ti dona" e "un'autobiografia inventata" nella quale i ricordi si impregnano di immaginazione e si mescolano con "le memorie di una gioventu altrui". Come sempre ama fare nei suoi libri, Judith Schalansky sovrappone alla vita reale una moltitudine di ritagli e sfumature e crea un romanzo nel quale le fatemorgane sono isole ben visibili al di la delle onde.

**Winner of the WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION and the HELEN AND KURT WOLFF TRANSLATION PRIZE****Winner of the Society of Authors FIRST TRANSLATION AWARD****Longlisted for the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE**"A fine example of everyones favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jewellers eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian"As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalanskys deeply engaging inventory" MICHAEL CRONIN, Irish Times"Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction"Financial Times "Books of the Year""Pure gold storytelling" SJONJudith Schalanskys strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully with her best-selling Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, which Robert MacFarlane called "utterly exquisite" (Guardian) and about which Time Outs reviewer said "Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic".Judith Schalansky is a wholly original writer whose books articulate perfectly what she wishes to say. Each of the pieces, following the conventions of a different genre, considers something that is irretrievably lost to the world, including the paradisal pacific island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger, the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, Sapphos love poems, Greta Garbos fading beauty, a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and the former East Germanys Palace of the Republic. As a child of the former East Germany, its not surprising that the dominant emotion in Schalanskys work should be "loss" and its aftermath, but what is extraordinary is the thoroughly engaging mixture of intellectual curiosity, down-to-earth grasp of lifes pitiless vitality, ironic humour, stylistic elegance and intensity of feeling that combine to make this book a masterpiece and one of the most original and beautifully designed books to be published in 2020.Translated from the German by Jackie Smith

Anpassung im Leben ist alles, wei Inge Lohmark. Schlielich unterrichtet sie seit mehr als dreiig Jahren Biologie. In einer Stadt im hinteren Vorpommern. Dass ihre Schule in vier Jahren geschlossen werden soll, ist nicht zu andern die Stadt schrumpft, es fehlt an Kindern. Aber noch vertreibt Inge Lohmark, Lehrerin vom alten Schlag, mit ihrem Starrsinn alles Storende. Als sie schlielich Gefuhle fur eine Schulerin entwickelt und ihr Weltbild ins Wanken gerat, versucht sie in immer absonderlicheren Einfallen zu retten, was nicht mehr zu retten ist.

Da autora de Inventário de Algumas Perdas, O Pescoço da Girafa é um romance carregado de humor e ironia sobre uma sociedade em profunda transformação e que desafia o leitor a um novo olhar sobre o mu

En aquest Inventari de coses perdudes, Judith Schalansky combina història, records personals i ficció per bastir un museu integrat per dotze relats, cadascun inspirat en una cosa extinta, desaparegud

EDICIÓN ACTUALIZADAVisualmente deslumbrante y con un diseño único, este libro recopila cincuenta y cinco islas alejadas en todos los sentidos de tierra firme, de la gente, los aeropuertos y los folletos turisticos. Su autora utilizo acontecimientos historicos e informes cientificos como punto de partida para cada isla que proporcionan informacion sobre que distancia la separa del continente, si esta habitada, sus caracteristicas y las historias que han configurado su acervo local. Con sus impresionantes mapas a todo color y su aire de misteriosa aventura, Atlas de islas remotas es perfecto para el viajero romantico que hay en todos nosotros.

Un gran éxito en Alemania, una novela sobre la adaptación al cambio.«La adaptación al medio lo es todo» es el lema que ha regido la carrera de más de treinta años de Inge Lohnmark, profesora de biolo

La historia de la humanidad está llena de cosas perdidas, relegadas al olvido en ocasiones, o destruidas por el hombre o la erosión de los días. Algunos de esos dispares objetos, reales o imaginarios, quedan recogidos e inventariados en este libro: los enigmaticos fragmentos que han pervivido de los poemas de Safo, el Palacio de la Republica de Berlin, el tigre del Caspio o el supuesto esqueleto de un unicornio. Una obra cautivadora e inclasificable que nos brinda la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre el significado de la perdida y el papel de la memoria a traves de la evocacion de doce tesoros que el mundo ha perdido para siempre, pero que, gracias al rastro que dejaron tras de si, en la historia, la literatura y la imaginacion, tienen una segunda vida.

Un gran éxito en Alemania, una novela sobre la adaptación al cambio. «La adaptación al medio lo es todo» es el lema que ha regido la carrera de más de treinta años de Inge Lohnmark, profesora de biol