Snow giant
Schneeriese is a youth novel by German author Susan Kreller . It was published by Carlsen Verlag in 2015 and received the German Youth Literature Prize .
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14-year-old Adrian is unusually tall for his age at 1.94 meters. His mother wants him to undergo hormone therapy to stop his growth - but Adrian refuses. Stella, the neighbor's daughter of the same age, is his longtime girlfriend. They both spend a lot of time on a porch swing surrounded by Miss Elderly, Stella's grandmother, who lives with Stella's family. In the past two years, shy Adrian has fallen in love with Stella, which he has never said before. Adrian is afraid that Stella won't return his love.
One night a family moves into the terrifying house next door ("House of the Three Dead"). Stella and Adrian suspect that this family is moving a body into the house and decide to investigate. You get to know the family who fled Georgia. While Adrian remains skeptical, Stella soon becomes friends with Dato, the son of the neighboring family.
Adrian feels that there is more than just friendship between the two. He turns completely away from Stella. He begins to doubt himself and gets into a major crisis in which he almost loses his life one winter night.
Reviews
Reviewer Hilde Elisabeth Menzel describes the book "Snow Giant" as a very moving and poetic love story. Adrian and Stella, who grow up together in "Siamese houses", experience a touching love for children, listen to Stella's grandmother when she reads them from Andersen's "Snow Queen" - until Adrian is 1.90 at the age of 14 and Stella learns about Georgian Dato in love. The critic notes with admiration how the author succeeds in telling a lyrical and visually stunning story without a happy ending, which at the same time connects the fate of a Georgian family with Andersen's fairy tale. "- Süddeutsche Zeitung.
"Andersen's" Snow Queen "says hello, says reviewer Elena Geus. However, she finds the fairy tale of the splinter in the heart in Susan Kreller's work well dusted and updated and without any pathos or heartache. But the story of a violent puberty is no less imaginative, multi-layered and Poetic as the template, assures Geus. The way the author describes the chaos inside her pubescent hero, who is fighting with jealousy, anger and despair, in a creative and pictorial way, is apt. Sometimes the linguistic ambitions of the author go a little too far for her - like that She thinks the story is beautiful and finely told, and she doesn't want to be distracted by it. " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
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- Susan Kreller: Snow Giant . Carlsen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-551-58318-5
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Susan Kreller: "Pirasol" . In: RN . ( ruhrnachrichten.de [accessed on November 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Book Review: Susan Kreller “Snow Giant” . In: Jugendbuchtipps.de . November 7, 2014 ( jugendbuchtipps.de [accessed November 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Susan Kreller: Snow Giant. (From 12 years) . ( perlentaucher.de [accessed on November 14, 2017]).