Martin Gülich – Low Season

fiction, young adults

176pp

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Jakob Pauli has hit puberty. Hard. While his parents claim he was a Sunday child, his own opinion of himself is quite different. Somewhat too short for his age, a dead loss at sports and not one to leave a great impression with the girls, to him the whole world appears like one big conspiracy designed to deny him happiness. At least, most of the time.

In portraying his adolescent hero, Martin Gülich employs the uncompromising language of a thirteen-year-old, thus managing to establish an ironical distance from the events that come to pass. His debut novel is full of verve, rendering all the fears, the unshakable - yet so changeable - judgments, the partly hesitating, partly bold attempts on finding one’s place in life and developing one’s identity, in short: the involuntary humor behind the bleak times of adolescence.

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Reviews

»An insiders' tip among the new German literary scene.«
Nürnberger Nachrichten

»Martin Gülich’s VORSAISON is a funny and pitiless novel, revealing the hidden - and in most cases soon forgotten – emotional hardships of adolescence, without any respect for taste or sensitivity. The reader may sometimes heave a sigh, thinking: Well, I didn’t want to know that precisely. But it is exactly this exaggerating radicalism of narration that lends the book its authenticity.«
Die ZEIT

»Gülich’s laconic, ironically charged prose is very close to the world of adolescents. Wistfully and precisely, he describes their restlessness, their searching, and their verbal cockalorum in trying to reassure themselves.«
Stuttgarter Zeitung

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