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“Lemons” (title translated by AI)
Valerie Fritsch (born 1989)
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August Drach grows up in a house at the edge of a village that is both hell and paradise. His father, disappointed in himself and in life, mistreats his son and has tenderness only for the dogs. August finds comfort with his mother, who looks after him lovingly. But when the father leaves the family, her care changes: she secretly mixes medicine into August's food, weakening the child and making him ill, and hopes for attention and admiration for nursing him. How can a person, grown up, solve the riddle of a childhood in which cruelty and love belonged together, and break the cycle of lies?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 186 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2024 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 35 when first published
- ISBN
9783518431726 (original)