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Bernd Schroeder
Off to America
Details about the book
- date of publication: 27.02.2012
- 176 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-23885-5
- Deutschland: 17,90 €
- Österreich: 18,40 €
- ePUB-Format
- E-Book ISBN 978-3-446-23924-1
- E-Book Deutschland: 9,99 €
Born in a refugee camp in the aftermath of World War Two, a boy grows up in the far-flung Bavarian village of Hausen. His parents come from sharply contrasting backgrounds. The mother is from a wealthy Berlin family and finds herself unable to adapt to rural life. The father is a loquacious good-for-nothing, whose Nazi past is shrouded behind a veil of diplomatic silence. It is only gradually, sifting fact from fiction, that the boy discovers what his father actually did. He has only one person he can confide in – the enigmatic farm-hand Veit. No one in the village really knows him, but he possesses something unique: a fabulous story. Because in the past he was in America – or so he claims.