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“Seven-League Heart” (title translated by AI)
Katharina Winkler (born 1979)
English editions
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It begins harmlessly for the five-year-old narrator, with her father's tenderness and a shared world of fairy tales and magic, until the games become sexual abuse, again and again. Told in condensed verse, the story keeps to the daughter's inner perspective, from childhood to young womanhood, and draws the reader into the perfidious bind in which the abuser ties love, violence and a shared secret together: whoever tries to reveal it is lying. Neither a new city, new friends nor a love affair bring relief for what has written itself into her body, thought and perception, and often stays hidden out of shame.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 239 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2024 by Matthes und Seitz Berlin
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9783751809610 (original)