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Der Halbbart
“The Half-Beard” (title translated by AI)
Charles Lewinsky (born 1946)
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Sebi is not made for farm work or a soldier's life; he much prefers hearing and inventing stories. In the year 1313, someone like him does not have it easy in a village in the valley of Schwyz, where the gravedigger's hoe can be heard every day and angels are hard to tell from devils. But from Halbbart, the strange foreigner from far away who has only half a face, the boy learns what distinguishes people for better and for worse, and how to make the best of oneself even in harsh times. A tale of fourteenth-century Switzerland and its upheavals, and of exclusion and being a stranger.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 676 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland, 1313–1315
- First published
- 2020 by Diogenes Verlag
- Author's age
- 74 when first published
- ISBN
9783257071368 (original)
- More
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