Nominee · Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2011
Why We Took the Car
2010 novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf
Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.
Mike, a troubled 14-year-old from a dysfunctional family in Berlin, finds friendship when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to and include Mike in his criminal activities. The plot contains profanity and violence.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- German
- Genre
- coming-of-age fiction
Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2011
See all →More by Wolfgang Herrndorf
Every prize →Other Leipzig Book Fair Prize winners
All years →Goldstrand
WinnerHalbinsel
WinnerMinihorror
WinnerUnser Deutschlandmärchen
WinnerEine runde Sache
WinnerEchos Kammern
WinnerStar 111
WinnerHigher Ground
WinnerHain
WinnerShe came from Mariupol
WinnerFrohburg
WinnerRegentonnenvariationen
WinnerBefore the Feast
WinnerLeben
WinnerSand
WinnerRoman unserer Kindheit
WinnerApostoloff
WinnerDie Nacht, die Lichter
WinnerHandy
WinnerThe Collector of Worlds
Winner

