Sleep well, you nasty thoughts
Sleep well, your nasty thoughts (English original title: Turtles All the Way Down ) is the fifth novel by the American writer John Green . The youth novel was published by Dutton ( Penguin Verlag ) in October 2017 and in November 2017 the German translation by Sophie Zeitz was published by Carl Hanser Verlag .
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Aza Holmes, a 16-year-old high school student from Indianapolis, has an obsessive-compulsive disorder. She has a terrible fear of the human microbiome and is concerned about contracting infection. So she repeatedly opens a never fully healed callus on her finger to let out what she thinks are pathogens. One day, billionaire Russel Pickett, father of Aza's old friend Davis, disappears in the wake of a fraud investigation. Aza’s friend, Daisy, wants the $ 100,000 reward for information leading to Pickett’s arrest and takes Aza on a search for the missing billionaire. After they canoe across the White River and sneak into the Pickett family's property, security guards catch them and take them to Davis. Davis persuades the two of them to give up the search and gives them $ 100,000 from his father's various hiding places near the guest house. Davis and Aza begin a relationship, and at the same time Daisy has one with Mychal. Over time, Aza believes that she cannot overcome her fear and prevents her from ever having a normal relationship with Davis. She finds numerous blog posts written by him about his feelings about his father's disappearance and his relationship with her. Aza also reads Daisy's fanfiction for the first time and discovers that Daisy used it as an outlet for her frustrations with Aza. Their friendship briefly worsens, culminating in a heated argument that leads to a car accident with Aza behind the wheel. She then spent several weeks in the hospital during which she had a panic attack and passed out after drinking a hand sanitiser. After she is healed and leaves the hospital, Aza reconciles with Daisy.
At an art exhibit in an unfinished drainage tunnel system in front of Pogue's Run (which Pickett's company was responsible for), Aza and Daisy explore on their own, where they eventually solve the mystery and discover that Pickett had run to where they were now. After noticing a bad smell from the area, they suspect that the billionaire has already passed away. Aza tells Davis about her discovery. He gives the police an anonymous tip, which finds the body.
Given the loss of their parents and their home (their mother had died years earlier), and the fact that their father left his entire fortune to his pet, a tuatara , Davis and younger brother Noah decide to move to Colorado. While Davis and Aza say goodbye, she reflects on the open possibilities of their future together.
criticism
Like Green's previous publications, the book was received very positively in the USA.
The New York Times praised it as “surprising and moving” and wrote that “you don't have to suffer like Aza to identify with it. You just have to be human. ”Matt Haig of The Guardian wrote,“ It could be a new modern classic ”.
expenditure
- Turtles All the Way Down. Dutton Juvenile (USA), October 2017, ISBN 978-0241335437 (first edition).
- Turtles All the Way Down. Speak (USA), September 2009, ISBN 978-0525555803 (paperback).
German editions
- Sleep well, you nasty thoughts. German by Sophie Zeitz. Hanser Verlag, Munich, November 2017, ISBN 978-3446259034 (German first edition).
- Sleep well, you nasty thoughts. German by Sophie Zeitz. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, May 2019, ISBN 978-3-423-62701-6 (paperback edition).
Web links
- John Green's homepage on Sleep Well, you mean thoughts on johngreenbooks.com.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finally: There's a new book by John Green. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ↑ In John Green's 'Turtles All the Way Down,' a Teenager's Mind Is at War With Itself. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ Turtles All the Way Down by John Green review - a new modern classic. Retrieved October 10, 2017.