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“The Stand-In School” (title translated by AI)
Kaleb Erdmann (born 1991)
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On the last day of the school-leaving exams in 2002, shots are fired at a school in Erfurt. The narrator, eleven at the time, is evacuated with his classmates and spends the following weeks watching the adults around him at a loss. More than twenty years later, the event unexpectedly returns, and he becomes obsessed with turning it into a novel. But does he have the right to reopen old wounds? And which of his memories are real, and which has he simply told often enough to believe them? The title is the stand-in school the pupils moved to.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 298 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 2002 and 2020s
- First published
- 2025 by park x ullstein
- Author's age
- 34 when first published
- ISBN
9783988160225 (original)
- More
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