Tukan Award for Literature

Günter Ohnemus – The Tiger on Your Shoulder

fiction, young adult

208 pp

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This is the story of Vincent and Karen, both 17 and in search for the meaning of life, love, buddhism and ice-cream parlours. Everything seems perfect until their parents get involved trying to separate the two for very mysterious reasons.

As wonderful easy as it is compelling - Günter Ohnemus tells the story of a great love: a most remarkable novel promising excellent reading experience.

Rights sold

paperback (new edition) - Baumhaus

Previously published with rights now reverted:

Finland - Karisto Oy
France - Actes Sud
France (paperback) - Actes Sud/Babel

paperback – Fischer
book club – Büchergilde Gutenberg

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Reviews

»With this resemblance to J.D. Salinger Günter Ohnemus has succeeded in writing a little masterpiece.« FOCUS

»It is not so simple an achievement in this country to write a book which comes across at an easy, almost ambling pace, but at the same time illustrates how vast the sky and the human heart are and that Life sometimes works in mysterious ways.« STERN

»A very strange, rare art has been brought to paper: the art of being sentimental without needing to write sentimental.« Die Zeit

»Günter Ohnemus has succeeded in writing a down-to-earth poetic story which is far from simple.« Brigitte

»Günter Ohnemus succeeds where others fail being able to write a love story between young people so lightly and transparently that it almost effortlessly takes on an aura of existing tragicomedy.« Tukan-Prize - The Jury's verdict