You would have missed me
Vanderbeke, Birgit, 1956-2019
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West Germany, early 1960s: A little girl arrives with her parents from East Germany in a camp for displaced people. The girl's father is abusive and her mother ignores her. Soon she will celebrate her seventh birthday and all she wants is a cat. Instead she receives and illuminated globe. The girl can't hide her disappointment - but then she discovers that the globe offers her a way to escape the misery of the camp.
Main title:
You would have missed me / Birgit Vanderbeke ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
Imprint:
London : Peirene Press, 2019.London : Peirene Press, 2019.
Collation:
154 pages.
Series title:
Peirene 2019 series ; 29.
ISBN:
9781908670526 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
2098339