by Benjamin Lebert · Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442541591
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«Crazy» is the coming-of-age novel by Benjamin Lebert, published by Goldmann in paperback (174 pages, in German).
Benjamin, a sixteen-year-old teenager with hemiparesis, arrives at a boarding school where he tries to fit in while repeating a year. With five friends, he experiences nocturnal escapades and first experiences, while everyone wonders what it means to grow up: friendship, desire, and one's own identity.
Novel narrated in the first person, originally published in 1999; this German edition belongs to Goldmann's Manhattan collection.
A read for young people and adults interested in coming-of-age novels and contemporary German literature.
Benjamin Lebert is a German writer. He was born in Freiburg. His first novel, Crazy, was published when Lebert was only 16 years old. The international bestseller about a handicapped teenage rebel has been licensed to 33 nations and was made into a feature film by Hans-Christian Schmid, and has drawn comparisons to J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In 2003, Lebert published a second novel, Der Vogel ist ein Rabe.
