by George Saunders · tapa dura · ISBN 9780812989632
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«The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip» is George Saunders's modern fable, published by Random House in hardback (96 pages, in English).
In the coastal village of Frip, three families live off the milk of their goats. The gappers, orange many-eyed creatures, attach themselves to the goats and stop them giving milk, so the children must throw them into the sea. When the gappers attack only Capable's goats, her neighbours decide whether to help her.
Edition illustrated by Lane Smith, with 52 images. Zilveren Griffel Award and Andersen Award in 2003; nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2005.
For child and young adult readers, it is a fable for all ages combining humour and illustrations.
George Saunders is an American writer. He is best known for his short stories and his novel Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), which won the Booker Prize. Saunders's short stories have been published as several collections, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) and Tenth of December: Stories (2013).
