BACK TO SCHOOL LITERARY – “Wolf Children” by Vera Buck was published in August 2024 by Gallmeister
Bruno_30, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends “Les enfants loups” by Vera Buck, published on August 22, 2024 by Éditions Gallmeister.
His favorite quote:
Of course, I know that wolves live in this area. Those who have livestock try to shoot them, others put up posters to protect them. And we, who are not concerned, sometimes hear the wolves howling at night. But I had never seen one before. He and I look at each other. »
Why this book?
Because we’re going to follow Vera Buck all the way to the bottom from a mountain valley to the remote village of Almenen. It is not “a village where many people come to settle, because it is located at the end of a long, narrow valley where there is hardly any sun in winter. That is why, when the owners of a house die, the house dies very quickly in turn,” it is written.Because come on, we’re going to go up a little more high up in the hamlet of Jakobsleiter, where the taciturn members of a Baptist community live wildly, closed in on themselves under the rule of a somewhat too passionate priest. It is in this region that a teenager from Jakobsleiter, Rebekka, disappears one fine day. This disappearance resonates like an echo of the disappearance of the(…) - 20minutes
