Book Club
German Book Club Reads Michael Köhlmeier

06/19/18
6:00pm
Goethe-Institut New York

At the June German Book Club meeting we will discuss Michael Köhlmeier's Das Mädchen mit dem Fingerhut (Carl Hanser Verlag, €9,90 ISBN 9783423146173).

Somewhere in a big city in Western Europe, a young girl wanders the marketplace, hungry. She doesn't understand the language spoken there.  Yet when someone yells "Police!" she begins to scream. Where did she come from? Why is she here? She doesn't know. She says, "Yiza," and henceforth is called Yiza. When Yiza meets two boys who are as alone as she is, they band together. They go to a shelter and then flee. The squat in an empty house, but get discovered. Michael Köhlmeier tells the story of a life on the margins and of a child's ability to survive.

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