Kinderbesuch

by Gudrun Pausewang

Ein deutsche Ehepaar besucht seine in Südamerika lebende Tochter. Tief beeindruckt vom Reichtum des Schwiegersohns, stehen sie der Armut und dem Elend rund um das vornehme Villenviertel verständnislos gegenüber. Als sie eines Tages allein zu Hause sind, öffnen sie einem bettelnden Mädchen das Tor...

Genres: German Literature

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

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

[Isabella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Frau Pausewang ist ja nicht dafür bekannt, Zuckerguss über Ihre Themen zu geben, und das tut sie auch in diesem Buch nicht. Heftig, aber glaubhaft erzählt.