by Irmgard Keun · Minúscula · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495587671
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Kully, a ten-year-old girl, travels through Europe with her father, a writer exiled from Nazi Germany. Through her lively eyes, the novel narrates the vicissitudes and melancholy of exile, where borders are more than just gates and mathematics serve to understand currency quotations. Originally published in Amsterdam in 1938, this charming story shows us how Kully prefers to imagine her own place where she can defy the countries of the right and left, while learning to express herself in multiple languages.
Irmgard Keun was a German novelist. Noted for her portrayals of the life of women, she is described as "often reduced to the bold sexuality of her writing, [yet] a significant author of the late Weimar period and die Neue Sachlichkeit." She was born into an affluent family and was given the autonomy to explore her passions. After her attempts at acting ended at the age of 16, Keun began working as a writer after years of working in Hamburg and Greifswald. Her books were banned by Nazi authorities but gained recognition during the final years of her life.
