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Jung, Reinhardt
2 Reviews
(4)
YA
Translated by Anthea Bell.
Bambert, a reclusive dwarf, sends eleven stories into the world via hot-air balloons. When they are returned from various locations, he rewrites them to suit the region in which they were found. The muddled story of Bambert makes an odd framing device, but the brief, often dark, fantasy-laced tales are individually intriguing.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta
(1)
4-6
Translated by Anthea Bell.
Through his dreams, a boy with severe birth defects travels sixty years back in time to Germany during the Third Reich; in the dreams he is a boy named Hannes, a "cripple." Hannes's father agrees to institutionalize, and perhaps kill, him--a betrayal the boy sees mirrored in the present in his family's attitudes about genetic testing. This spare, deeply felt novel adds a new dimension to Holocaust literature.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2003
2 reviews
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