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Geschichte eines Kindes
“Story of a Child” (title translated by AI)
Anna Kim (born 1977)
English editions
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In July 1953, in a small town in Wisconsin, Carol Truttmann, a twenty-year-old telephonist, gives birth to a boy and gives him up for adoption that same night. Daniel stays in the care of a church social service. Soon the nurses face what they consider a grave suspicion: the baby does not seem to be white, as the mother claimed. In a homogeneously white, segregated society this is a scandal, and a social worker must establish the child's true origins by tracing the father, whose name the mother will not give. Interwoven with the case files is the story of an Austrian writer staying in the United States in 2013.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 221 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 1953–1959, 2013
- First published
- 2022 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9783518430569 (original)
- More
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