by Hanns-Josef Ortheil · btb Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442739813
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«Das Kind, das nicht fragte» is the novel by Hanns-Josef Ortheil, published by btb Taschenbuch in paperback (427 pages, in German).
Benjamin Merz, a German ethnologist, travels to Mandlica, in Sicily, to study the customs of its inhabitants. His work requires talking to them, but he can barely formulate questions: his childhood with four older brothers trained him in silence. In return, he possesses an uncommon attentiveness that the village women soon learn to value.
The novel, published in 2014, is part of Hanns-Josef Ortheil's autobiographical project alongside «Die Erfindung des Lebens» and «Die Moselreise».
A read for fans of contemporary German fiction and of stories set in Sicily, with a protagonist marked by silence.
