num_pages: 560
description: A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come.
title: Ein herzzerreißendes Werk von umwerfender Genialität. Eine wahre Geschichte.
titlecomplete: Ein herzzerreißendes Werk von umwerfender Genialität. Eine wahre Geschichte.
genres: American, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 179614
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Memoir
publisher: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co.