Why We Took the Car (German: Tschick) is a youth novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf first published in German by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010. The English edition, translated by Tim Mohr, was published by Scholastic in 2014. It deals with the unconventional friendship between a 14-year-old middle class boy and a Russian late repatriate youngster. The novel was awarded with the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Children's Literature Award) as well as the Clemens-Brentano-Preis in 2011. In 2012, it was also awarded with the Hans Fallada Prize. It was published in over 25 …
Why We Took the Car (German: Tschick) is a youth novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf first published in German by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010. The English edition, translated by Tim Mohr, was published by Scholastic in 2014. It deals with the unconventional friendship between a 14-year-old middle class boy and a Russian late repatriate youngster. The novel was awarded with the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Children's Literature Award) as well as the Clemens-Brentano-Preis in 2011. In 2012, it was also awarded with the Hans Fallada Prize. It was published in over 25 countries and sold over 2 million copies in Germany alone until September 2016.
254 pages
Langue : German
Publié 12 avril 2010 par Rowohlt Verlag.
Das Buch war damals ein Bestseller, der Autor hat Preise gewonnen, das Werk wird im Deutsch-Unterricht gelesen - ich kann es immer noch nicht nachvollziehen.
Aber: Es liest sich weg wie nix. Einfach ein sehr amüsant geschriebenes Abenteuer, das Tiefgang bietet, wenn man möchte. Kann weiterempfehlen! (Aber halt nicht so gehyped!)
