by Rothmann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518398098
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«Milch und Kohle» is the novel by Ralf Rothmann, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (210 pages, in German).
Set in the Ruhr in the late 1960s, it follows Simon, a teenager from a working-class colony. Between the harshness of the mine, his mother's dissatisfaction and escapades with his friend Pavel, the arrival of two Italian workers disrupts family life. Rothmann portrays the transition to adulthood in a changing world.
It is number 3309 in the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series and received the Evangelischer Buchpreis 2003 in the novel category.
For readers of contemporary German fiction and coming-of-age stories set in the working-class world.
Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge, Young Light, Fire Doesn't Burn, To Die in Spring and The God of that Summer being translated into English. The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area as well as Berlin, with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. With the major novels Im Frühling sterben, Der Gott jenes Sommers and Die Nacht unterm Schnee, Rothmann goes back to the time of the Second World War and explores the horrors for the individual. The five volumes of short stories Ein Winter unter Hirschen, Rehe am Meer, Shakespeares Hühner, Hotel der Schlaflosen and Museum der Einsamkeit complete the author's extensive oeuvre.
