Tamara Bach
Auteur van Girl from Mars
Werken van Tamara Bach
Sankt Irgendwas: Eine Klassenreise, auf der etwas schrecklich schiefgeht - genau beobachtet und meisterhaft… (2020) 3 exemplaren
Das Pferd ist ein Hund: Ein warmherziges, witziges Kinderbuch über Familien und Freundschaften. Von der James… (2021) 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Bach, Tamara
- Geboortedatum
- 1976-01-18
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Germany
- Geboorteplaats
- Limburg an der Lahn, Germany
- Woonplaatsen
- Berlin, Germany
Ludwigshöhe, Germany - Opleiding
- Free University of Berlin
- Beroepen
- writer
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (2004)
Luchs (2003, 2007)
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 12
- Leden
- 176
- Populariteit
- #121,982
- Waardering
- 3.1
- Besprekingen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 34
- Talen
- 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).… (meer)