Why We Took the Car

by Wolfgang Herrndorf · first published 2010

Why We Took the Car (German: Tschick [ˈtʃɪk]) is a youth novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf first published in German by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010. The English edition, translated by Tim Mohr, was published by Scholastic in 2014. It deals with the unconventional friendship between a 14-year-old middle class boy and a Russian late repatriate youngster. The novel was awarded with the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Children's Literature Award) as well as the Clemens-Brentano-Preis in 2011.

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Genre:

Bildungsroman, Coming-of-age fiction

Original language:

German

Year page:

2010