- Deutscher Buchpreis 2011 · Shortlist
Das Mädchen
“The Girl” (title translated by AI)
Angelika Klüssendorf (born 1958)
English editions
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Empty bottles, beatings, days of house arrest: in the GDR, a girl grows up with a father who drinks and rarely turns up, an unpredictable mother who takes out her rage on the children, and a little brother who withdraws into himself. Her classmates avoid her. Yet she is tough. She holds on to the pictures in an old animal encyclopaedia, to the dream of a small house with a garden, and to the few people who matter to her, and she has learned to take what she needs. When she is caught shoplifting once too often, she is sent to a children's home.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 182 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2011 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9783462042849 (original)