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Helene Hegemann
Axolotl Roadkill
Axolotl Roadkill
208 pages, € 14,95 [D]
Date of publication:
January 2010
€ 14,95 [D], € 15,40 [A], sFr 25,50
ISBN-10: 3550087926
ISBN-13: 9783550087929
The radical voice of the Noughties generation
“Horrible lives are a godsend”, this is what 16-year old Mifti writes in her diary. Since the death of her mother, she has been living in Berlin in an increasingly dire state of disarray. Diagnosed as a “pseudo stress-debilitated” problem child, she becomes enmeshed in the Berlin party scene, surviving her so called life through a haze of sex, drugs and club culture. What sets Mifti apart is her hypersensitivity and her open, questioning curiosity about an older generation that doesn’t seem to be able to care for its children. Torn between genius and madness, she delves into the language of adults, their predisposed conventions and playing with what she calls, “the general decay of their worlds, where the pursuit of prosperity has led to neglect.”
Press reviews:
Süddeutsche Zeitung:„This book is phenomenal. And Hegemann is a phenomenon. … In its hot-cold microscopic fierceness, this book is already a literary sensation.“
FAS:„There hasn’t been a German debut with such force for a long time… so seductively individual that surely some hundred other authors will try and copy the Hegemann style and fail miserably. “
FAZ:„Helene Hegemann is the sensation of this season… AXOLOTL ROADKILL is the big coming-of-age-novel for the Generation Zero.“ Der Spiegel:„The Wunderkind of Bohemia … This book is driven by a constant search, packed with spot-on observation and surprising ideas. Helene was offered the big stage – She jumped on it.” Die Zeit:„Such a debut is very rare… a masterfully narrated surrealism… In its ripping rhetoric movement AXOLOTL ROADKILL renders into an apocalyptic speech, in its literary gestures almost into absurdity.” Die Welt:„A book which is startlingly intelligent, pleasantly grotesque and deliciously eloquent.” Tagesspiegel: „AXOLOTL ROADKILL has raised the bar for all other debuts this year immensely“
FAS:„There hasn’t been a German debut with such force for a long time… so seductively individual that surely some hundred other authors will try and copy the Hegemann style and fail miserably. “
FAZ:„Helene Hegemann is the sensation of this season… AXOLOTL ROADKILL is the big coming-of-age-novel for the Generation Zero.“ Der Spiegel:„The Wunderkind of Bohemia … This book is driven by a constant search, packed with spot-on observation and surprising ideas. Helene was offered the big stage – She jumped on it.” Die Zeit:„Such a debut is very rare… a masterfully narrated surrealism… In its ripping rhetoric movement AXOLOTL ROADKILL renders into an apocalyptic speech, in its literary gestures almost into absurdity.” Die Welt:„A book which is startlingly intelligent, pleasantly grotesque and deliciously eloquent.” Tagesspiegel: „AXOLOTL ROADKILL has raised the bar for all other debuts this year immensely“
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