Michelle Steinbeck

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• Favorita

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  Schweizer Buchpreis 2024 · Shortlist

  Favorita

  Favorita

  Michelle Steinbeck · 34 when first published

  Novel · 448 pages · Crime, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Fila grows up with her grandmother; her mother has disappeared. When news arrives from Naples of her mother's death, the cause is unclear, cirrhosis or murder, and Fila sets off across a neo-fascist Italy.

• Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch

  In English

  SaveMy Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water to read later

  Schweizer Buchpreis 2016 · Shortlist

  My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water

  Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch

  Michelle Steinbeck · 26 when first published

  Novel · 128 pages · Speculative, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Loribeth is on the run with a suitcase, and in it a dead child. A fortune teller tells her that to grow up she must take the suitcase to her missing father, and she sets out across cities, deserts and seas.