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Why We Took the Car 2023
Why We Took the Car is a young adult travel adventure novel written by Wolfgang Herrndorf. The German original, titled Tschick, was first released by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010. An English translation by Tim Mohr appeared through Scholastic in 2014. The story explores an unusual bond between a 14-year-old boy from a middle-class background and a Russian repatriate teenager. This work received multiple literary honors including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Clemens-Brentano-Preis in 2011, plus the Hans Fallada Prize in 2012. The novel has been published in more than 25 countries and sold over 2 million copies within Germany by September 2016.
Details
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Verlag
- Pages
- 256
- Format
- Print (hardback and paperback)
