by Hans Peter Richter · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482649702
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«El meu amic Friedrich» is the historical young-adult novel by Hans Peter Richter, published by Alfaguara in paperback (200 pages, in Catalan).
From the narrator's perspective, it recounts the friendship between two boys growing up in Nazi Germany: the protagonist, from a German family, and his neighbour Friedrich, who is Jewish. Their coexistence becomes filled with signs of exclusion: Friedrich's father loses his job, their house is ransacked, and he is forced to change schools, while pressure on Jews grows.
Catalan translation by Carme Serrallonga, in the L'Esparver collection. Originally published in German as «Damals war es Friedrich» (1961) and winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder Award in 1972.
Aimed at young readers aged 12 and up who want to approach historical fiction about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Hans Peter Richter was a German author. He was born in Cologne, Germany, and went to Volksschule and Aufbauschule. He took part in World War II as a soldier with the highest military rank of lieutenant from 1942 to 1945. He lost his left arm because of an injury in the war. Richter studied psychology and sociology in Cologne, Bonn and Mainz from 1948 to 1952. He achieved his promotion as Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Tübingen in 1952. He focused on independent research activities for business enterprises and broadcasting corporations from 1953 to 1973.
