by Ralf Rothmann · Libros del Asteroide S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417007393
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Luz de juventud is a novel by German author Ralf Rothmann, published in Spanish by Libros del Asteroide. The story follows Julian, a twelve-year-old boy living in the Ruhr region in the 1960s. As his father suffers health problems from working in the coal mines and his mother becomes distant, Julian finds support in his little sister and a teenage neighbor. During a summer in which he is left alone with his father, Julian begins to become aware of the end of his childhood, exploring themes of growth, family, and the loss of innocence in an environment marked by the harshness of mining work.
Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge, Young Light, Fire Doesn't Burn, To Die in Spring and The God of that Summer being translated into English. The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area as well as Berlin, with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. With the major novels Im Frühling sterben, Der Gott jenes Sommers and Die Nacht unterm Schnee, Rothmann goes back to the time of the Second World War and explores the horrors for the individual. The five volumes of short stories Ein Winter unter Hirschen, Rehe am Meer, Shakespeares Hühner, Hotel der Schlaflosen and Museum der Einsamkeit complete the author's extensive oeuvre.
