by Andreas Steinhöfel · tapa dura · ISBN 9783866151253
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«Die Mitte der Welt» is the young adult novel by Andreas Steinhöfel, published by Süddeutsche Zeitung in the Junge Bibliothek collection, in hardback.
Phil is a seventeen-year-old boy who lives without a father together with his twin sister and a very young mother in a half-abandoned house on the outskirts. Without certainties about his past or his future, he tries to find himself while discovering the secrets surrounding his family and navigating between friendship, loneliness and first loves.
Volume 24 of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Junge Bibliothek collection: 415 pages, in German. The novel won the Buxtehuder Bulle in 1998 and the Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser in 1999.
For young and adult readers looking for an intimate coming-of-age novel with a queer protagonist and a story centred on identity.
Andreas Steinhöfel is a German author for children and young adult books, and a translator.
