by Janet Frame · Suhrkamp · tapa dura · ISBN 9783518019917
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«Wenn Eulen schrein» is Janet Frame's novel, published by Suhrkamp in hardback (231 pages, in German).
Set in provincial New Zealand before the Second World War, it follows the Withers family and, in particular, Daphne, whose poetic sensibility leads to her confinement in a psychiatric hospital. The work explores mental health, loss and social maladjustment.
Novel originally published in English as «Owls Do Cry» (1957); this German edition is translated by Ruth Malchow and belongs to the Bibliothek Suhrkamp series, volume 991.
A work of interest for readers of literary fiction, twentieth-century classics and stories about mental health.
Janet Paterson Frame was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour.
