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Not since The Luxury of the Hedgehog has a booklet arrived in America from European countries on such wings of critical compliment and reputation. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden can be an unforgettable debut - at once chilling and endearing, haunting and richly insightful - the story of 1 girl's big heart and soul and even bigger creativity, and of a global full of secret, good, and bad. It is not ten-year-old Pia's problem that her grandmother dies in a freak incident. But notify that to the residents of Pia's little German hometown of Bad Münstereifel, or even to the classmates who shun her. The only one who still would like to be her good friend is StinkStefan, the most unpopular child in university. But then another thing catches the community's attention: the vanishing of Katharina Linden. Katharina was last seen over a float in a parade, outfitted as Snow White. Then, such as a personality in a Grimm's fairy tale, she disappears. But, this being real life, she doesn't give back. Pia and Stefan believe that Katharina has been spirited away by the supernatural. Their exploration is inspired by the instructive - and cautionary - local legends advised to them by their elderly good friend Herr Schiller, stories such as that of Unshockable Hans, stopped at by witches by means of felines, or of the knight whose child is doomed to hunt forever. Then another female disappears, and Pia is plunged into a fresh and unnerving place, one a long way away from fairy stories - and perilously near to adulthood. Marvelously morbid, stunningly suspenseful, and very receiving, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden is a fresh coming-of-age common, and the most attained fiction debut in years.
