Ergebnis für "spiegel" in Coming of Age

Nach einem Konzert des erst neunjährigen Cellisten Armando Hector Ruiz herrscht auch eine Viertelstunde nach dem Ende der Musik absolute Stille im berühmten Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Als die beiden altgedienten Garderobieren Gertrudis und Maria Rosa einen verwirrten Blick ins Auditorium werfen, verharrt das Publikum in der Bewegungslosigkeit einer Photographie. So etwas haben sie noch nie erlebt - und sie sind nicht die einzigen.

Winner of the Campiello Prize, The Lake’s Water Is Never Sweet is an unflinching portrait of a generation, striving to make a place for themselves in a world markedly different from the one their parents promised them. With psychological acuity and stylish prose, Caminito takes us into the volatile, searching mind of a young woman torn between her desire to connect with others and her drive for self-preservation.

Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu—the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army—spends his days with his “half and half” friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to dig up a skull in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die.