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Streulicht
“Stray Light” (title translated by AI)
Deniz Ohde (born 1988)
English editions
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Industrial snow marks the edges of the town, a fine acid hangs in the air, and behind the factory bridge the father pickles aluminium sheets day after day. The narrator grew up here, and she comes back when her childhood friends get married. Walking the old paths, she remembers a father and a blind grandfather who barely spoke and could throw nothing away, a mother who packed her bags and left her with her drinking father, dropping out of school and the struggle to catch up, and the shame of a working-class child in a system that does not keep its promise of equal chances.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 284 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany
- First published
- 2020 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 32 when first published
- ISBN
9783518429631 (original)
- More
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