Last of Its Kind
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In 1835, the young scientist Gus was sent to Northern Europe by the Natural History Museum of Lille to study fauna. In the process, he witnesses a massacre of auks and saves one of them. Little did Gus know that he was saving the last great auk on Earth. He named him Wangwang and sent him home to the Orkney Islands. What he didn't even know was that a deep attachment and bond would soon develop between himself, a researcher, and the great auk, who distrusted humans. They are the only ones left on the island. Sybil Greenbert creates an unforgettable pairing of humans and animals on the occasion of the sixth extinction of the species, and succeeds in creating a trustworthy animal character - its heart, its emotions, its intelligence, while humans are haunted by a question that is both intimate and metaphysical: What does it mean to love something that will never be seen again?
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