Deborah Ellis: The Outsmarters
The Outsmarters
Buch
- Groundwood Books, 08/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781773068572
- Bestellnummer: 11582226
- Umfang: 248 Seiten
- Gewicht: 318 g
- Maße: 193 x 127 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 6.8.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"Eleven-year-old Kate lives with her grandmother, who runs a junk shop in a big old house on the outskirts of town. It sometimes feels sad to be in the business of collecting other people's leftover stuff, but Kate knows sad. She's a bit lonely, and she doesn't remember her mother, who left long ago. Still, Kate dreams that one day her mother will return, and when she does, she'll need money. So Kate sets out to make some, just in case. At first she wants to offer psychiatric advice, like Lucy in the Peanuts cartoon. Gran squashes that idea: "You are not a psychiatrist. You'll just get sued." But what about a philosopher, who Gran says is just someone who thinks deeply about important things. "I do that all the time," Kate says, and soon she opens up a Philosophy Booth to provide answers to life's big and small questions for $2 a pop. But who can answer Kate's questions? Where does her grandmother go in her truck at night? And why won't she talk about Kate's mother? These are hard questions to answer, and Kate gets help from two kids who come into her life. Myndeelee, who moves into the house behind Gran's, and Brandon, who Gran seems to hate, though Kate can't figure out why."--Biografie
Deborah Ellis ist Schriftstellerin und Psychotherapeutin in Toronto, wo sie die Organisation "Frauen für Frauen in Afghanistan" gründete. 1999 verbrachte sie viele Monate in afghanischen Flüchtlingslagern in Pakistan und Russland, bevor sie diese Geschichte schrieb. Ellis führte Gespräche mit Frauen und Mädchen und traf die Mutter und die Schwester eines Mädchen, das eine ähnliche Geschichte erlebte wie Parvana, die Protagonistin des Romans. "Die Sonne im Gesicht" ist ihr zweites Kinderbuch. Sämtliche Tantiemen aus dem Buch gehen an afghanische Flüchtlingscamps in Pakistan, wo sie für den Unterricht und die Ausbildung von Mädchen verwendet werden.§ Deborah Ellis
The Outsmarters
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