Publication

2016 - University of Chicago Press

Language

English

Word Count

94,000 words, Guess

Page Count

376 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780857423689
  • ISBN-100857423681
  • OCLC Control Number944087311
  • Better World Books9780857423689
  • Open LibraryOL28605335M

Classifications

  • LCCPT2707.E58
  • LCCPT2707.E58 M66 2017

Description

It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collecting dragonflies in a moor filled with myths and legends. On the precipice of adulthood, Dion begins to spill the secrets of his heart--his burning desire for faultless speech and his abiding relationship with his mother, a failed painter with secrets of her own. Even as Dion spins his story, his speech is filled with fissures and holes--much like the swampy earth that surrounds him. Nature, though so often sublime, can also be terribly cruel.

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Other Editions

  • MoorUniversity of Chicago Press2016-01-01

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