by Miriam Toews · BVT Berliner Taschenbuch Verlags GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783833306402
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«Die fliegenden Trautmans» is the novel by Miriam Toews, published by BVT Berliner Taschenbuch Verlags GmbH in paperback (254 pages, in German).
Hattie lives in Paris when her eleven-year-old niece asks for help. On returning to Canada, her sister Min is admitted to a psychiatric centre and Hattie takes charge of Thebes and Logan. To ensure it isn't a permanent custody, the three embark on a road trip to find the absent father.
Originally published as The Flying Troutmans, this German edition appeared in 2010. Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2009.
A contemporary fiction novel for reading groups and for readers interested in family stories and eccentric characters.
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of ten books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
