Stolperschritte

by Mirjam Pressler

Ein gehbehinderter Junge findet zu einem neuen Selbstverständnis.
Wegen seiner Gehbehinderung dreht sich in Thomas' Familie alles um ihn. Niemand erkennt die verzweifelte Lage des jüngeren Bruders, der eines Tages Suizid begeht. Die Beziehung zwischen Thomas und seiner Mutter wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Genres: Dark, Contemporary, School

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

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

[steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

an impacting little book about pain, grief, and self-centeredness in these moments. read it in one go. i wouldn´t recommend this edition, though, or if you have it, don´t read the synopsis, it gives too much away, in my opinion.

[Jill Guth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Touching childrens book

[Leah♥️(book talk with me) bei Spotify · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ich habe bei einem Schulbuch noch nie so sehr geweint 😢

[Gabriel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Schreibstil ist authentisch aber gewöhnungsbedürftig. Ich verstehe sehr warum das Buch als Schullektüre genutzt wird. Es hat mich bewegt und zum Nachdenken angeregt, ohne viel zu wollen.

[Martine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reading it again for uni. Pretty much hated it when I read it in school, will see if that changed over the years.

Nothing changed, still don't like it.