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IN BRIEF - CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTS'
Jutta Richter
Die Katze oder wie ich die Ewigkeit verloren habe Carl Hanser Verlag,
August 2006,
72pp
An eight-year-old girl's walk to school takes her past an old white cat. She likes to stop and feel its warm head beneath her hand, even though her fingers smell of fish afterwards. Her teacher doesn't seem particularly understanding of her morning sessions with the cat, but the wise cat always gives her something to ponder, be it the hermit-like ways of her neighbour the postman, or why she feels protective towards a boy in her class; and whether she and the cat will live seventy-two lives each, for they are special, the whole street lies at their feet and eternity is theirs - or is it? Another work of beauty and the profound appreciation of the sometimes painful shift from one stage of childhood into another by the author of Hechtsommer (Summer of the Pike see nbg 18) with a smattering of freewheeling feline illustrations. Jutta Richter born in Germany in 1955, is a highly-regarded writer of children's books. One of the many awards she has won is the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
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