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My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water
Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch
Michelle Steinbeck (born 1990)
Translated by Jen Calleja
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My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water
Darf Publishers · United Kingdom · 15 October 2018 · Paperback · 128 pages
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Loribeth's fantastic journey begins as an escape: with a suitcase, and a dead child inside it. A fortune teller helps her on: all her problems would be solved, so the prophecy goes, if she took the suitcase to her missing father. Loribeth crosses cities, deserts and seas in search of him, and of a home and a future. Always hungry and alone, she falls in love with every young creature that offers her something to eat, but unexpected encounters, disasters and an alarmingly lively corpse in the suitcase keep forcing her to move on.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 153 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2016 by Lenos Verlag
- Author's age
- 26 when first published
- ISBN
9783857874697 (original)
9781850773184 (Darf Publishers, United Kingdom)
- More
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