Maybe we can stay

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Maybe we can stay ( Norwegian original title: Albin Prek ) is a children's book by the Norwegian writer Ingeborg Kringeland Hald . It is her debut novel . The original edition was published by Mangschou in 2010. The German first edition in the translation by Maike Dörries was published by Carlsen Verlag in 2015 .

In 2010 the book was nominated for the renowned Norwegian literature prize Brageprisen .

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At the age of six Albin Prek fled to Norway with his mother Dhina and his younger twin sisters Anja and Anka from Bosnia , which was in the war in Yugoslavia .

When they are threatened with deportation back to Bosnia five years later, Albin runs away in the hope that his mother and sisters will not be deported until he is found. Albin gets on a bus and meets two girls, six-year-old Lisa and twelve-year-old Amanda, who are driving to a holiday home by the lake with their grandparents. Without further ado, Albin gets off at the same stop as Lisa and Amanda and hides in the trunk of the grandparents' car while they are in the gas station.

In the forest, not far from the holiday home where the grandparents live, Albin finally comes across a small hut in which he is hiding. The following days Albin follows the girls and their grandparents and is caught by Lisa and Amanda trying to take food from their picnic basket. They start a conversation and give Albin some of their rolls. But Albin disappears when the grandparents return. Shortly afterwards, Amanda and Lisa find Albin in the hut. They bring him food and heat the oven. Albin tells them why he ran away and that he was hiding in their car. Amanda reports that she heard about Albin on the radio and that his mother and sisters are still in Norway. Albin asks her not to tell the grandparents anything. Lisa, however, still tells her grandmother about Albin and the grandfather gets Albin out of the hut and takes him to the holiday home. Albin spends the night there and thinks about how he can escape from there.

When a car pulls up the next afternoon, Albin disappears into the birch forest behind the house. However, he is found by a police officer and taken back to the holiday home. His mother and sisters are waiting for him there. Albin promises his mother that he will never run away again. The police officer explains to the family that the deportation notice may have been issued on the basis of incorrect conditions. You have not yet received a final residence permit, but you are allowed to stay in Norway for the time being.

The escape story of six-year-old Albin is also told in flashbacks. After his father was shot by soldiers in front of the family, Dhina and her children first flee to the neighboring forest. Dhina explains to Albin that they cannot go back home. In the reception center, soldiers ask Albin about his age. Dhina whispers to him to say that he is four years old. In cold blood, the soldiers shoot a whining boy who is hungry. The boy's mother, Dhina and Albin have to see the terrible situation. Dhina, Albin and his sisters are taken to a refugee camp in a bus , which is guarded by a UN protection force . Here Dhina Albin promises that they are now real refugees and that they will be helped.

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