Suhr - The German Exchange Student
Culicidae Press
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About the Book
This witty developmental novel depicts the friendships and love experiences of a girl, Gorda, from childhood through high school. Initially we are confronted with the gloomy environment of post-war Germany, in which the fulfillment of duty is more important than child-centered creativity; a nightmare for young Gorda. She escapes to California as an exchange student. That’s where she learns to kiss and speak American English...Returning back to Germany allows Gorda to see her own world, family, and friends with completely new eyes. With The German Exchange Student, Geertje Suhr has written a novel that will delight adults and young people alike.
About the Author
Geertje Suhr grew up in Northern Germany, studied German, Romance Philology, and History in Tübingen, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Lausanne (Switzerland). She received her doctorate in 1980 from the University of Illinois in Urbana with a dissertation on the poetry of Heinrich Heine.
Geertje Suhr is a member of the PEN-Zentrum deutsch-sprachiger Autoren im Ausland and the Varnhagen Society. In 2006, she endowed the Geertje Potash-Suhr Prize for Prose in German, awarded by the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German; to date, Nina Holz, Fred Viebahn, Peter Wortsman, Peter Blickle, Guy Stern, and Utz Rachowski have received the prize.
Dr. Suhr received the 2000 Elisabeth Fraser de Bussy Prose Prize from the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. She received the Robert L. Kahn Poetry Prize 2013 from the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. In 2020 she was named the Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry Laureate in Wuppertal, Germany. She lives in Chicago and Germany.
Book Information
Publisher : Culicidae Press (May 3, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 232 pages
ISBN: 978-1-68315-021-3 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-68315-039-8 (case wrap hardcover)
ASIN: B09ZG4B3YP (Kindle)
Item Weight : 14.6 ounces (paperback)
Dimensions : 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches