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Koala
Lukas Bärfuss (born 1971)
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An ordinary person, an ordinary life and an ordinary end: except that the end is a suicide, and the man who took his life is the narrator's brother. The two did not know each other well. The narrator traces his brother's fate, knows little at first and meets a great silence, as if the subject were surrounded by taboo and by a secret. Why did his friends in the Scouts call him Koala? Can a name shape a fate? His search leads him to the colonial history of Australia and the near-extermination of the koala, and to a question beyond why someone chose death: what reasons are there to choose life?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 182 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland, Australia
- First published
- 2014 by Wallstein Verlag
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9783835306530 (original)
- More
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