Grünschnabel/Greenhorn
Subtitle: Roman/Novel
Publisher: Schöffling & Co, Frankfurt a. Main
Published: 2011
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
Table of contents: title: Greenhorn; title: »My father bought me from the municipality for 365 Swiss Francs.«; title: So, in the 1970’s, begins the story of a child given up for adoption, who finds herself with new parents among immigrants. In the middle of a new and very mixed milieu the child tries to find her feet and to understand her surroundings - with the help of her personal collection of words in labelled matchstick boxes.; title: Which is not so simple: Like the foreign occupants of the house the girl is at once marginalised and appropriated, and the problems really start when she finds something in the wardrobe of; title: their neighbour, an Italian guest worker, that sets off an avalanche.; title: GREENHORN is distinguished by an unusual wealth of images, an original narrative style and laconic dialogues. Cantieni’s tragi-comic tone breaks with familiar patterns of story-telling and, following traditions of east European literature, opens up imaginary spaces beyond place and time.; title: »Unusual wealth of images, original narrative style.«; title: Felicitas Hoppe