German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) どいつしょせきしょう
Edition 11 (2015)
German-language literature prizeNovel prizeAnnual literature prize
Winners
1 peopleAn experimental novel that reconstructs the turmoil of West German history and personal memory through the voice of a 13-year-old narrator.
Fragments of history are dismantled and rearranged inside one boy’s mind.
817 pages
German Book Prizememorypoliticsadolescencepostwar Germany