The 2018 Reading Challenge - #20 - A Book by a local Author
Hello bookworms :)
What a prompt ^^ When it comes to me...probably something everyone but those who speak German will not find helpful at all ;) only due to the reason that I´m almost 100 sure that this book is not available in English. But it says a book by a local author so here we go...oh and also I have to admit I took local in the broadest sense...meaning that Oskar Maria Graf lived in Munich which is kind of local for me ;)
Dorfbanditen
by Oskar Maria Graf
Again a little summary from goodreads:
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"The nine children of the backer family Graf are everything but little innocents. Especially the boys are going too far sometimes. Secretly procuring Flobert rifles and go poaching, stealing strawberries from the garden at the neighbor and being prepared to shoot the guarding Spitz: Graf's childhood and youth memories show a rough village life around 1900. Flogging and child labor are the order of the day, tussling and drunk peasants as well. As amusingly and anecdotally cheerful these autobiographical stories are, they show a hard and brutal village life reality."
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I´ll give it a 8.5 out of 10
Its such a gorgeous little collection of stories of a childhood filled with adventures, dreams, games and fantasies, besides the hard and sometimes cold truth it´s just so lovely to read about boys and their adventures, a childhood once upon a time in the country.
It reminds me so much of all the stories my grandads told me specifically the one on my mothers side, so my mums dad who grew up with nine siblings and always tells us about a time when everything seemed to be so much lovelier even tho times were so much harder.
Even tho the family told about in this book, family Graf, did not have the easiest times , most money or the best of everything, the children were free and filled with sometimes quite dangerous ideas and playing outside discovering and saving each other out of like I said sometimes really dangerous situations like being captured on a ice floe in the middle of a lake or falling from high walls on a construction site or nearly drowning in the aforementioned lake because of a frightened dog...such things and so many more. I really enjoyed it end especially loved the conversations written in the original Bavarian dialect...it so funny switching from standard German into dialect and I loooove that I actually writes it how it would be said ^^ so funny and quite thrilling throughout the chapters when you don´t know if all of the boys will survive!
I highly recommend it, but unfortunately mainly to those speaking German because I doubt that it was ever translated and maybe it´ll be helpful if you have a general idea of Bavarian dialects ;)
Its such a gorgeous little collection of stories of a childhood filled with adventures, dreams, games and fantasies, besides the hard and sometimes cold truth it´s just so lovely to read about boys and their adventures, a childhood once upon a time in the country.
It reminds me so much of all the stories my grandads told me specifically the one on my mothers side, so my mums dad who grew up with nine siblings and always tells us about a time when everything seemed to be so much lovelier even tho times were so much harder.
Even tho the family told about in this book, family Graf, did not have the easiest times , most money or the best of everything, the children were free and filled with sometimes quite dangerous ideas and playing outside discovering and saving each other out of like I said sometimes really dangerous situations like being captured on a ice floe in the middle of a lake or falling from high walls on a construction site or nearly drowning in the aforementioned lake because of a frightened dog...such things and so many more. I really enjoyed it end especially loved the conversations written in the original Bavarian dialect...it so funny switching from standard German into dialect and I loooove that I actually writes it how it would be said ^^ so funny and quite thrilling throughout the chapters when you don´t know if all of the boys will survive!
I highly recommend it, but unfortunately mainly to those speaking German because I doubt that it was ever translated and maybe it´ll be helpful if you have a general idea of Bavarian dialects ;)
Again a prompt which makes more inspiration a bit tricky...
Where are you from? Do little research you might be surprised which author might be from your neighbourhood ^
If you would like me to give you some inspiration just leave a comment and I´ll check it out ;)
Where are you from? Do little research you might be surprised which author might be from your neighbourhood ^
If you would like me to give you some inspiration just leave a comment and I´ll check it out ;)
So which author did you choose who is from where you live and which book did you read?
Hope you all are having a wonderful time and a successful reading challenge ;)
With lots of love
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