A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father
Tavares, Gonçalo M.. 1970– Hahn, Daniel.
A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father / Gonçalo M. Tavares - First English Edition , US - Dallas: Dalkey Archive Press, 2025. - 233 pages.
Hanna, a twelve-year-old girl with Down syndrome, is lost and alone while looking for her father. Marius, her companion, is running away from something unnamed when their paths meet. Aided by a box filled with simple instruction cars, Hanna and Marius journey to Berlin where they suspect they might find her father. Along the way, they meet a handful of strangers who characterize the social and historical context of post-war Europe, Hanna explored what it is to be a human being, and Marius realizes he is more lost than Hanna. In A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father, Gonçalo M. Tavares creates an abstract yet touching portrait of the true victims of war.
Bellas Artes Prize for the Best Translation 2025 Margarita Michelena 2019 (Mexico) Prémio Tabula Rasa 2015 (Portugal)
9781628975987 = A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father
Down Syndrome--Fiction
A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father / Gonçalo M. Tavares - First English Edition , US - Dallas: Dalkey Archive Press, 2025. - 233 pages.
Hanna, a twelve-year-old girl with Down syndrome, is lost and alone while looking for her father. Marius, her companion, is running away from something unnamed when their paths meet. Aided by a box filled with simple instruction cars, Hanna and Marius journey to Berlin where they suspect they might find her father. Along the way, they meet a handful of strangers who characterize the social and historical context of post-war Europe, Hanna explored what it is to be a human being, and Marius realizes he is more lost than Hanna. In A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father, Gonçalo M. Tavares creates an abstract yet touching portrait of the true victims of war.
Bellas Artes Prize for the Best Translation 2025 Margarita Michelena 2019 (Mexico) Prémio Tabula Rasa 2015 (Portugal)
9781628975987 = A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father
Down Syndrome--Fiction