Novemberkatten

by Mirjam Pressler

Ein Roman über ein Mädchen, das sich trotz vieler Widrigkeiten einen Platz in der Welt erobert.

»Novemberkatzen taugen nichts«, sagt Ilses Mutter. »Niemand will sie.«
Genauso geht es auch der elfjährigen Ilse. Mit der Mutter und den älteren Brüdern lebt sie im Gemeindehaus, seit der Vater die Familie verlassen hat. Ilse ist die Kleinste und Schwächste - die Nachbarskinder verhöhnen sie, und von den Lehrern wird sie als dumm abgestempelt. Und doch schafft Ilse den mühevollen Weg aus der Isolation, Schritt für Schritt.

Genres: German Literature, Young Adult

175 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

German writer Mirjam Pressler is the author of several novels that have won awards in her native Germany and also received high praise from critics after being translated into English. In Malka and Halinka Pressler focuses on young Jewish protagonists who have been forced by fate to endure the Holocaust, while in Shylock's Daughter she returns readers to fifteenth-century Italy as she attempts to answer haunting questions surrounding the motivations of characters in a popular play by William Shakespeare. While receiving notice for her novels, Pressler is most well known for her work revising the diaries of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, and she is considered an expert on Franks's life and writings. In addition to translating Frank's famous diary from Dutch into German, Pressler has edited The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition and has also authored Anne Frank: A Hidden Life for younger readers. Winner of the 1994 German Youth Literature Prize for her work, Pressler divided her time between homes in Bavaria and Israel.

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 1 out of 5]

(Read this in spanish in my spanish class, but that version was not available on here. :/ )

This was a very, very sad, dark and tragic story. Miserable. With a lot of anguish, and I did not like that.
Since I didn't like the book at all, and since it was in another language, I coudl not really focus on what was happening, which made it a not so giving reading experience, since I want to read in Spanish to learn more. If I'm not interested, it goes into my head, and out the next second. Some things stay, but I get uninspired and unmotivated to get into the story and all the new words.

I feel so sorry for Ilse, what a horrible family and horrible brothers she has. This was veyr tragic, and of course I didn't enjoy reading about it, life is gray as it is, I don't need the life of the books I read to be so too haha!

[Verena · Rating 4 out of 5]

absolute Nostalgie an Kindheit und wahnsinnig traurig