Az utolsó egyed by Sibylle Grimbert
About the book, by publisher Book*hug Press:
From award–winning French writer Sibylle Grimbert comes The Last of Its Kind, a moving story of friendship, trust, respect, and the desire to endure and survive. In 1835, Gus, a young zoologist, is sent to Iceland by the Natural History Museum of Lille to study North Atlantic fauna. It is there that he witnesses the bloody massacre of a colony of great auks. Amidst the violence, the curious researcher pulls a single wounded bird from the water, unaware that he has recovered what will eventually be the last of its kind. Over the next fifteen years, Gus comes to realize that he is closely observing something inconceivable: the extinction of a species. From there, a singular preoccupation is born, and the inevitable fate of his feathered friend eclipses everything else around him.
Originally published as Le dernier des siens, the Hungarian edition was translated by Kornélia Kiss and published by Magvető Kiadó as Az utolsó egyed. The skeleton printed in spot UV on the cover instantly hints at a grim conclusion. Linotype’s Bodoni Bold Condensed is used for the title, combined with Adobe Jenson Italic for the author’s name.
