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Hooligan

Hool

Philipp Winkler (born 1986)

Translated by Bradley Schmidt

English editions

In English

• Hooligan

  Arcade Publishing · United States · 3 April 2018 · Hardcover · 304 pages

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Everyone has two families: the one you are born into and the one you choose. Heiko Kolbe comes from a broken home, and his chosen family is a gang of hooligans who believe in the cleansing power of a fight. Football hardly matters. What matters is letting off steam with their bodies, sticking together, being able to rely on each other, and the unwritten rules of the brawl. Heiko is a hard boy with a big heart who fights his way through to protect what is sacred to him: his lads, their best years and what they leave behind. A story of a culture of violence in which outsiders find their language.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

311 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

First published

2016 by Aufbau-Verlag

Author's age

30 when first published

ISBN

9783351036454 (original)

9781628728675 (Arcade Publishing, United States)

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