Child of All Nations : Penguin Modern Cl

Author: Keun, Irmgard

Brand: Penguin

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 208

Release Date: 24-03-2009

Part Number: 9780141188454

Details: Product Description
Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.
Review
A truly great read, in all the meanings of great - and funny and deft, heartening and terrible, relevant right now all over again -- Ali Smith

Nothing short of a revelation ... I am still haunted by it ―
Evening Standard

A delicious novel about an irreverent thirteen year old,
Child of All Nations smokes and so does its heroine -- Erica Jong

Hugely engaging... with room for everything - shrewdness, forgiveness, wit and loneliness - while love makes all its hopeless deals with hope -- Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces
About the Author
Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in 1905 and found instant success with her novels
Gilgi (1931) and
The Artificial Silk Girl (1932). Everything changed in 1933 when the Nazis blacklisted her and destroyed her books; in response, she attempted to sue the Gestapo for loss of earnings. She left Germany (and her husband) in 1936 and lived in exile in Europe, where she wrote
Child of All Nations (1936) and
After Midnight (1937). She sneaked back into Germany in 1940 under a false name and spent the rest of the war in Cologne. In later years, she wrote for magazines and radio and raised a daughter alone. She died in 1982.

EAN: 9780141188454

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.7 x 0.5 inches

Languages: English, German