Der lange Weg des Lukas B.

Bienmann Saga #1

by Willi Fährmann

Preußen im Frühjahr 1865: Lukas` Vater verschwindet spurlos und hinterlässt seiner Familie einen Berg Schulden. Zusammen mit seinem Großvater und einer Zimmermannskolonne macht sich der 13-Jährige nun auf die Reise nach Amerika, um dort das fehlende Geld zu verdienen. Schon auf dem Schiff entdeckt Lukas Spuren seines Vaters und beschließt, ihn zu suchen.

Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, German Literature, Historical Fiction, Germany

381 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Willi Fährmann (* December 18, 1929 in Duisburg; † May 25, 2017 in Xanten) was a German author of children's and young adult books. His best-known books include the novels The Year of the Wolves (1962), Kristina, Don't Forget (1974), The Long Road of Lukas B. (1980), and A Time to Hate, a Time to Love (1985), which are part of the Bienmann saga.

Reviews

[Aldi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I fell into the trap of thinking this was going to be anything like the "By Way of the Stars" series, since that was supposedly based on this book. It's an extremely free adaptation, which would have been fine if the book was great, but IDK... between the 50% ship voyage, 30% treatise on carpentry in the late 19th century, and 20% preaching thinly disguised as dialogue, I kind of lost interest halfway through. Also the "historically accurate" racism was pretty hard to swallow and the POC characters so stereotypical it made me cringe a lot.

[Lou 🌈 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to get a feeling for the time when industrialisation went on. Everything is described very detailed, but for me it was a little strange that the protagonist often just was named “der Junge”, which felt like we should keep ourselves in distance from the main character. I also think there were a lot of themes in this one book. This made it hard for the author and for the readers to really focus on thing. The author writes about industrialisation, slavery, the “new world”, the conflict between old and young, liberalisation, war, a lost father and and and. Nevertheless it was a precious book for me to read.

[Prim Hardbottle M.E. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Der Zimmermann Friedrich Biennmann verlässt 1870 mit seinem Enkel ( Luke) und Kollegen, seine ostpreußische Heimat, um nach Amerika zu gehen und somit die Spielschulden seines ebenfalls nach Amerika verschwundenen Sohnes zu begleichen. Luke folgt den Spuren seines Vaters und versteht es später, seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen. Allerlei Arbeit, Konflikte, Rassismus , politische Überzeugungen , eingebunden in allerlei History bestimmen das Buch. Tolles Buch um Luke, der seinen eigenen Weg finden muss. Ein verdienter Jugendbuch Preis 1980.👍🏻

[Claudia · Rating 3 out of 5]

dreieinviertel ***
didaktisches Erzählen, holzschnittartige Charaktere, artifizielle Dialoge
interessante Geschichte

[Stefan · Rating 5 out of 5]

by Willi Fährmann of course!

[Eva · Rating 2 out of 5]

won't continue the series

[Mateo R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

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