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Tamara Bach

Autor de Girl from Mars

11 Obras 163 Miembros 10 Reseñas

Obras de Tamara Bach

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Bach, Tamara
Fecha de nacimiento
1976-01-18
Género
female
Nacionalidad
Germany
Lugar de nacimiento
Limburg an der Lahn, Germany
Lugares de residencia
Berlin, Germany
Ludwigshöhe, Germany
Educación
Free University of Berlin
Ocupaciones
writer
Premios y honores
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (2004)
Luchs (2003, 2007)

Miembros

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68/2021. Wherever it is Summer by Tamara Bach, is a young adult novel about two teenage girls in Germany and What They Did On Their Holidays. I can't judge the original German story or writing because it has been let down by the English translation.

The two languages are close enough that near verbatim translation works fine for most conversation and basic description but as soon as a character has deeper thoughts, especially if expressing those thoughts involves more complex grammar and style, then the result ranges from clunky to indecipherable. There's a note at the end which sounds like the translator keen to tell us something: "She (Tamara Bach) speaks super English and was a huge help to the translator." Hmm.

I feel mean quoting one of less good bits but I want to give an example of the effect I described above and I'm doing the author the favour of assuming it read better than this in the original German:

"HOW IT STARTED maybe can't be said at all after the event, but when - that I do know, because I wondered, because it was just before the holidays."

So, although the nostalgia was fun and the characters of the two non-conforming teens were good company for a few hours, I wanted to like and enjoy this as a novel more than I did.

Warning for repeated discussion of suicide (this is not a spoiler as it happened before the book begins).
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½
 
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spiralsheep | 2 reseñas más. | Apr 27, 2021 |
"Året är nytt. Lovet nästan över. Bara nio dagar återstår innan skolan börjar igen. Det blir nio dagar när de fyra vännerna Fienchen, Zanker, Mono och Bowie kommer varandra riktigt nära. Nio dagar då de har chansen att finna kärleken, lyckan och livets mening."
 
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stenbackeskolan | otra reseña | Nov 6, 2020 |
I read this because I wanted an escapist lesbian love story and to have a break from things about death and dying. Which was, err, an error, because it is very explicit about loss and death and dying, and very light touch on the exact nature of their relationship. But I enjoyed it a lot.
½
 
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atreic | 2 reseñas más. | Nov 2, 2020 |
The European young adult books often have a different sensibility to them and this one is of the same vein. A contemplation.
½
 
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Brainannex | 4 reseñas más. | Jan 19, 2017 |

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Obras
11
Miembros
163
Popularidad
#129,735
Valoración
3.1
Reseñas
10
ISBNs
34
Idiomas
5

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