Milchzähne [Milk Teeth]
2019
Aufbau Verlage
About the Book
English title: Milk Teeth
ISBN: 978-3-351-05068-9
Fiction. 256 Pages
Blumenbar. Hardcover
2019, March
Rights sold: US/English (Unnamed Press); France (Éditions Gallmeister)
Film rights sold
Sample Translation available
With Milk Teeth, Bukowski was nominated for the Mara Cassens Prize, the Rauriser Literature Prize and the Kranichsteiner Literature Promotion Prize, among others. The film adaptation is in the works.
Synopsis
The child is suddenly just sitting there one day, her hair glowing a fiery red in the green pine forest. She belongs to nobody. Skalde takes her home, although she knows the others in the village won’t accept her decision.
Skalde and her mother, Edith, have never really been part of the community. Twenty years earlier, Edith was found dripping wet on the banks of the river, which the others had hoped would protect them from a world falling into chaos. Mother and daughter only love one another because they have no choice: they’ve got to stick together against the village. Especially now, when it’s increasingly clear that the child’s life – and their own – are in danger …
Helene Bukowski has written a breath-taking debut novel at once timeless and controversially modern, an account of a brutal world that lies in wait for us somewhere.
Praise for Milk Teeth
It is quite amazing how Bukowski manages to tell her story in such a compelling and moving way. – TAZ
Narrated in concise, straightforward and truly beguilingly clear poetic language. – Radio Eins
‘Milk teeth’ feels like a pull: The more you read, the less you want to put it down. – Deutschlandfunk Kultur
‘Milk Teeth’ is full of tensions and atmosphere. It is about home and wanderlust, about belonging and strangeness, about nature as a refuge and nature as an enemy. – RBB Kulturradio
About the Author
Helene Bukowski was born in Berlin in 1993. She studied at the Hildesheim Literature Institute where she now gives courses and workshops for creative writing. Milk Teeth was her debut novel.
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