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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
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Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- Swamplandia!
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Karen Russell
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0307276686
- ISBN13
- 9780307276681
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Natur, Fantasy, Gegenwartsliteratur, Familie, USA, Tod, Literarische Fiktion, Geheimnisvoll, mysteriös, Magischer Realismus, Neuanfang, Vergewaltigung, Zusammenhalt, Mensch und Natur, Florida, Südstaaten-Gotik, Exotik, Sümpfe
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2011
- Originaltitel
- Swamplandia!
- Bewertung
- 3,3 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.