Der Schlund

by Gudrun Pausewang

Deutschland um das Jahr 2000: Ein neuer Diktator herrscht mit Gewalt und Terror. Die meisten halten still - doch das Mädchen Gesa will sich wehren.

Genres: German Literature

236 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1996

About the author

Gudrun Pausewang (1928 - 2020) was a German writer of children's and teen fiction, also noted in science fiction for young-adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn.

Pausewang was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry and after World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has written 86 novels with many of them involving the Third World and environmental concerns.

She has won several awards, including the German Federal Cross of Merit, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for The Cloud in 1988.

She was the older sister of Freya Pausewang.

Reviews

[Tessp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dieses Buch hat mich an mehreren Stellen zu Tränen gebracht. Die Thematic ist heute noch sehr relevant und ich würde jeden dieses Buch empfälen! Der Schreibstiel ist für nicht Muttersprachler wie ich sehr lesbar.

[Mb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bis jüngst hielt ich dieses Buch für zu phantastisch.

[Josiemaus85 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bewegendes Jugendbuch.

[Sabine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gruselig und nachvollziebar. Habe es in der Schule gelesen.