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“Heart Thread” (title translated by AI)
Thomas Hettche (born 1964)
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After a show at the Augsburger Puppenkiste, the famous marionette theatre, a twelve-year-old girl slips through a hidden door into an enchanted attic, where many friends are waiting: Princess Li Si, Mikesch the tomcat, Lukas the engine driver, and above all the woman who carved all these puppets and now tells her story. It begins in the Second World War, when the actor Walter Oehmichen meets a puppet carver as a prisoner of war and builds a marionette theatre for his family, which burns in the bombing of 1944. A story of imagination in dark times, and of the theatre's rebirth through his daughter Hatü.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 279 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, 1940s–1950s
- First published
- 2020 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 56 when first published
- ISBN
9783462052565 (original)
- More
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