Tamara Bach
Forfatter af Girl from Mars
Værker af Tamara Bach
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Bach, Tamara
- Fødselsdato
- 1976-01-18
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Germany
- Fødested
- Limburg an der Lahn, Germany
- Bopæl
- Berlin, Germany
Ludwigshöhe, Germany - Uddannelse
- Free University of Berlin
- Erhverv
- writer
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (2004)
Luchs (2003, 2007)
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Lister
Hæderspriser
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 11
- Medlemmer
- 163
- Popularitet
- #129,735
- Vurdering
- 3.1
- Anmeldelser
- 10
- ISBN
- 34
- Sprog
- 5
The two languages are close enough that near verbatim translation works fine for most conversation and basic description but as soon as a character has deeper thoughts, especially if expressing those thoughts involves more complex grammar and style, then the result ranges from clunky to indecipherable. There's a note at the end which sounds like the translator keen to tell us something: "She (Tamara Bach) speaks super English and was a huge help to the translator." Hmm.
I feel mean quoting one of less good bits but I want to give an example of the effect I described above and I'm doing the author the favour of assuming it read better than this in the original German:
"HOW IT STARTED maybe can't be said at all after the event, but when - that I do know, because I wondered, because it was just before the holidays."
So, although the nostalgia was fun and the characters of the two non-conforming teens were good company for a few hours, I wanted to like and enjoy this as a novel more than I did.
Warning for repeated discussion of suicide (this is not a spoiler as it happened before the book begins).… (mere)