Description
How do you find a way to fit in when you don't really feel you belong? Hunter follows the stories of Eric, a teenage boy, and two men, one a Nazi from Austria and the other a Nazi from northern Germany. Eric has just moved from the country to the coastal town of Crescent Bay and has difficulty adjusting. To earn some money, he begins doing odd jobs for seniors and comes into contact with the two old men. Of Germany descent himself, Eric becomes fascinated by the men and the stories they tell. Are they Nazis? Should he contact the police? He discovers that one of the men has damning evidence against the other and he is forced to choose who to turn over to the police. Set during the Gulf War and with a backdrop of middle class Australian coastal life, Hunter is a coming of age story which poses some interesting questions about nationality, social acceptance, conformity and middle class suburban life in Australia. Winner of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
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Foreign language rights available.
English language print rights of Australia.
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The book won the fiction category and finished runner-up in the grand prize at the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Rippple Books
Rippple Books is a publisher of English language fiction books, based in Germany. They have six titles to date, and were recently named and Indie Groundbreaking Publisher by the Independent Publisher.
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- Publisher Rippple Books
- Publication Date September 2012
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9783981458541
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12 EUR
- Pages330
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionSecond
- Dimensions198 x 129 mm
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